Stella Bain By Anita Shreve
It is 1916, and a woman awakens, wounded, in a field hospital in northern France. She wears the uniform of a British nurse’s aide, but has an American accent. With no memory of her past or what brought her to the battlefields of World War One, she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, and that her name is Stella Bain. Suffering from severe shell shock, Stella ends up in London with no family or friends and, worst of all, no memory of her life before the war. With the help of Dr. August Bridge, a surgeon who takes an interest in her case, Stella must piece together her story and, in doing so, contend with some gut-wrenching truths about the life she left behind.
Crafted with care and woven by a master storyteller, STELLA BAIN brings back the complex, layered narrative Anita’s readers have loved in such beloved books as The Pilot’s Wife and Fortune’s Rocks.