When the Dawn Breaks, Emma Fraser
When the Dawn Breaks, Emma Fraser
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When the Dawn Breaks

Author: Emma Fraser

Narrator: Jane MacFarlane

Unabridged: 14 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/07/2013


Synopsis

Two women. One secret. A heart-breaking choice.

Skye, 1903. Jessie, the young daughter of a local midwife, is determined to become a nurse one day, but family loss and heartache jeopardise her dreams. Isabel, the doctor's daughter, is planning to follow in her father's footsteps - even though medicine is not considered a fitting career for a woman. And then there's Archie, Jessie's older brother, whom Isabel just can't stay away from.

After an unsettling encounter in the woods, Archie disappears, and all their lives are irrevocably changed . . .

Years later, Isabel is a qualified doctor and Jessie is a nurse and when their paths cross again, neither is certain what the other woman knows about that fateful day. But when war breaks out and they find themselves working shoulder to shoulder, they have no option but to confront all they have kept hidden.

Taking in Skye and Edinburgh, France and Serbia, When the Dawn Breaks is a sweeping wartime story of two determined women and the dark secret that will bind them forever . . .

About Emma Fraser

Emma Fraser emigrated to Africa with her Gaelic-speaking parents when she was nine years old and remembers lying in bed and listening to her father playing the bagpipes. She returned to the Western Isles of Scotland years later and went on to qualify as a nurse, working in Edinburgh and Glasgow before leaving to study English Literature at Aberdeen University. Emma began writing when her daughters started school and she has published three historical novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Her third book, The Shipbuilder's Daughter, was inspired by, as always, true events - this time by the Glasgow shipyards where her grandfather once worked.Keep up to date with Emma by following her on Twitter (@EmmaFraserBooks) or becoming her friend on Facebook (www.facebook.com/emmafraserauthor).


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ingrid on June 23, 2016

Emma Fraser a été infirmière aux quatre coins du monde. Elle s'est passionnée pour l'histoire de son métier, avant de se découvrir un vrai talent de romancière. Quand soufflera le vent de l'aube est un roman historique remarquablement documenté (et inspiré de faits réels) qui retrace le parcours bou......more

Goodreads review by Lynne on June 06, 2014

Downton Abbey meets Call the Midwife This lovely Scottish/World War I set romantic Saga features Isabel - the privileged daughter of a doctor who is not content to settle for her station in life and dreams of becoming a doctor like her father; Archie - a crofter's son on Skye with plans for a bigger......more

Goodreads review by Angela on December 17, 2020

Will definitely read other books 📚 by the author at some point. The story is set before WW1 and during it. It follows the lives of two very different women who become linked through family and tragedy and their love of medicine. Isabel a doctor's daughter, determined to become a doctor herself in a......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on April 21, 2020

4.5 stars rounded up to 5 stars. When the Dawn Breaks is a historical novel that involves 3 main characters, Isabel, Jessie and Jessie's brother, Archie. Although it begins in 1908 on the island of Skye in Scotland, the location moves to Edinburgh, Scotland and finally to Serbia during World War I. J......more

Goodreads review by Christine on November 26, 2018

Gros coup de coeur pour cette histoire! Une histoire magnifique, romancée mais au juste ton, racontant la vie de ces femmes écossaises, infirmières, aides-soignantes, chauffeuses, ou médecins, qui, en France ou en Serbie, soignèrent et sauvèrent des milliers de blessés, souvent au péril de leur prop......more


Awards

  • RNA Romantic Novel of the Year