<b>Mayfair, 1910. At the age of ninety, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind.</b><br/><br/>After a celebrated career as a nurse, writer and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening she is astonished to receive a visitor: a young man named Silas Bradley, who claims to have met her during the Crimean War fifty-five years ago. But how can this be? And how does the elusive Jean Frawley connect their two lives?<br/><br/>In this eagerly anticipated novel, Laura Elvery shows why she is one of the most lauded writers of her generation. <i>Nightingale</i> is a luminous tale of faith and love, bravery and care, and the vitality of women's work.<br/><br/>