This website displays the remarkable diaries which Edith Elizabeth Appleton wrote while nursing in Northern France from 1914 to 1919. Click here to read them. Update 17 February 2013. Edie is now at no. 10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller list! It's here.     Click to enlarge   First published as a hardback and eBook on 1st March 2012 by Simon & Schuster with the Imperial War Museum. The paperback version is published on 7th February 2013. Click here for more information. Press release about the paperback from Simon & Schuster (PDF) A Nurse at the Front is edited by Ruth Cowen and has a Foreword by Michael Morpurgo. Click here for sample from the book (PDF)

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Extracts from Edie's diaries were read on BBC Radio 4 at 3.30pm on 10, 11 and 12 November 2009.
The three broadcasts were repeated on Sundays 26 June, 3 and 10 July 2011.
Missed them?  You can still hear them; more information here.

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