Frontline is the first book in a series charting the rise of a
prominent British medical family in the twentieth century. From
wars to a pandemic, the discovery of penicillin to the birth of
the NHS, successive generations of the Burnett family are at the
vanguard of life-saving developments in medicine.
Frontline is the story of an aristocrat's daughter who joins the
war effort as a nurse. In a field hospital in rural France she
meets Will, a dockworker's son serving as a stretcher-bearer. As
rumours of an armistice begin to circulate, so too does a
mysterious respiratory illness that soldiers are referring to as
the 'Spanish flu'.