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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Historical adventure fiction
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FLIGHT OF THE WILD SWAN

Melissa Pritchard

A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine.

Sweeping yet intimate, FLIGHT OF THE WILD SWAN tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent one whose extraordinary life offers a grand lesson in inspired will.

Melissa Pritchard is the award-winning author of twelve books, including the novel PALMERINO, the short story collection THE ODDITORIUM, and the essay collection A SOLEMN PLEASURE. Emeritus Professor of English and Women's Studies at Arizona State University, she is the fiction editor for Image journal and lives in Columbus, Georgia. For more information, visit www.melissapritchard.com.

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Book Published 2024-03-12 by Bellevue Literary Press
Book Published 2024-03-12 by Bellevue Literary Press

Comments

What an amazing book this is. Florence Nightingalewith her insistent spiritual yearning and her work inside the horrors of waris a large and quite astounding character, evoked by Pritchard in full intellectual depth. The journey this novel takes is mesmerizing and unforgettable.

Flight of the Wild Swan is the best of Melissa Pritchard. It combines her exquisite ear for tone and detail in story, her gift of mystic perception, and her sense of the historic layering of human lives and the events that make our lives absolutely distinct. In this novel, you will come to know Florence Nightingale close up, not as a faraway, distant figure

Flight of the Wild Swan offers a fascinating immersion in the 19th-century world of drawing rooms and battlefields, crinolines and leeches. Just as vividly, Pritchard's tour de force evokes nursing and medicine today, when Florence Nightingale's pioneering contributions are still felt and in which women still struggle for equality. An enchanting, inspiring, and utterly relevant novel.

Pritchard excels in this marvelous and moving work.

A fresh imagining of an icon... A brisk, perceptive narrative.