This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

I really enjoyed this book. The characters and plot are appealing and the portrayal of the challenges of war were well written. I throughout recommend buying a copy. I will look forward to reading more from the author, Lizzie Page, and am grateful to Bookoutre and Netgalley for granting access to a digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

The Daughters of War, pulled me in. The story begins when sixteen year old May, who had great dreams of seeing the world, going on wonderful adventures.
It all seems possible when she marries George and moves to London. Now, a decade later, she's lonely and wonders what purpose she serves other than being a mother to two beautiful girls who her husband's sent away to boarding school.

WWI begins as May meets a retired nurse name, Ellie, who tells of her profession and how May can help with the war effort. The pull to leave a loveless marriage and give her daughters reason to be proud of her is far too great to resist, but it comes with a price.

Lizzie Page painted beautiful settings and captured the frustration and growth of May as she navigates her life.

This book was a lovely read and a great reminder of so many unknown people who helped during the war.

I was given an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley.

“Daughters of War” by Lizzie Page is a very interesting historical novel in that the heroine May was determined to go to the front lines during the war even though she was married and the mother of two girls. Her husband was more of a prison warden, vicious when angry and vindictive. She met him in America when he literally fell in her lap. They saw each other for a few months and then married quickly and returned to his home in England. When war broke out, George conveniently was declared 4F, unfit for duty. He shipped the girls off to boarding school, which left May alone and lonely. George had other “interests” which May was very suspicious of. She decided that she would enlist as a nurse to be sent to France.

George was extremely angry and hostile. She had to get away from him and for a time was able to get leave to see her girls. George eventually spirited the girls away to another location that was impossible for May to find. She met a lieutenant in France and developed a romantic relationship with him. All the while she and her fellow nurses worked round the clock taking care of those unfortunate soldiers injured at the front. It was a very emotional job and they never got used to the young men who died and their horrible injuries.

Eventually, the war ended and May returned to England to find her girls. George divorced her and at that time this was a disgraceful thing for a woman to be divorced. George was adamant that she would never see her children again.

I found this novel to be quite depressing, although I can readily see how this sort of thing could happen. If her husband had paid more attention to and taken care of May, she may not have been in the situation she found herself in. I found this novel to be a look inside the more bitter life that some women find themselves in and only pluck and determination can see them out of their dreary life.

I was granted a download of this novel by NetGalley.com in return for my honest review.

I really enjoyed this book. It was brilliantly written with a great cast of characters and intriguing plot that kept me turning the pages. Perfect read to escape from day to day life. A great read.

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I was really looking forward to read this book. The premise of the storyline was what grabbed my interest initially.
Unfortunately, I don't feel like it lived up to my expectation. Just not a book for me. 2.5 stars..

It is a heart touching story of bravery,sacrifice and sufferings of women during the war. Loved the characters.Very well written story.

Excellent book! Loved the characters and it was a great storyline. I would highly recommend this book.

I had read & enjoyed Lizzie Page's book about nurses in WW1 so I was really pleased to see another book set in the same era.

May was bored. Her life in America seemed to be restricting and with no sign of excitement, so when George the handsome Englishman swept her off her feet and married her she was delighted. All was not as it seemed & neither was George! Ten years on her life in London was equally as boring & restricted. When her daughters are away at school her life seems not worth living. Then the war breaks out. She decides to volunteer as a nurse. In France she discovers reserves of strength she hadn't thought she possessed.But her struggles in France are nothing compared to the war over her daughters.

This is a well researched & well told tale. It sweeps the reader nto the nightmare of the trenches and the restrictions imposed on women at that time. All in all a great read. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me red & review this book.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher, Bookouture through NetGalley. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.

Daughters of War by Lizzie Page is a wartime story of May Turner. As a young bride, May leaves her home in America when she meets who she thinks will give her adventure and love. She travels with her new husband George back to his home in England. It does not take long before May realizes that she has made a terrible mistake. Ten years pass, and she finds herself trapped and depressed in a marriage to an alcoholic womanizer. When the first World War begins, it seems to be her saving grace and chance at escape. At the risk of loosing her daughters, May leaves for war torn France where she becomes a nurse. Friends and a new love, offer a glimpse at happiness, but the horrors of war may tear them apart.

Daughter’s of War has an intriguing story line and the introduction of actual events and people is interesting. Many liberties were taken as I felt that I was questioning which war I was reading about. Some situations seemed more modern than that of early 20th century. The restrictions of women during this time and the expectations of society made certain situations within this book difficult to imagine. I also felt as if the author missed some points that leaves the reader wondering about certain characters. The reader never discovers why May and her mother are so at odds even though this has seemed to shape who May is as a person. Bonnie's storyline is a little flat. She has a baby while serving at the Front but we don’t discover by whom. She then is engaged to be married suddenly and then at some point there is another mention of her having a new beau. I found my self lost and wondering if the author just forgot to mention certain details. There were many of these such discrepancies throughout the book that at one point I was about to give up all together.
Her description of war and life as a nurse at the Front was a bit lacking, dare I say weak in its description. I felt like she did not adequately depict the real horrors of war. It needed more grit. The author did eventually introduce some of what it would have been like but not until at least 75 percent of the way through.
I really wish I could have enjoyed Daughters of War. As I said the Author has a wonderful storyline and great set of characters. I did however, enjoy the ending very much. It was emotional and a happy ending for the characters. I quite liked it.

May living with an abusive alcoholic husband with two daughters at boarding school feels her life is worthless. She volunteers to go to the Western Front as a nurse with no experience. Funding herself she sees the horrors of the war. Friendships are made but her cruel husband makes her life hell when she returns for visits. This story is so beautifully written and is truly an insight into these brave women who made such a difference during this period. Wonderful friendships are made. It bought a tear to my eye several times with real hard hitting truths of this time and the very young men sometimes boys who went through this. I have since found it is number two of a trilogy so will be purchasing Book one right away.

This is the second book in the planned trilogy which focus’s on the unbelievably courageous women of the Great War, and I have to say that this is a very worthy follow up to the hugely emotional and incredible The War Nurses and I really cannot wait for the third and final book, which I know will be another emotional ride just as this and the previous book have been.

This is an inspiring, emotional, heartbreaking, mesmerising, charming, haunting book that is inspired by the remarkable life of May Borden who was a nurse, novelist and poet during the Great War. The story opens with May in a bit of a depression, the man she thought she was to lead a whole new life with has is now a drunk and worse than that she knows that her husband is cheating on her. She is tired of her life surrounded by a man who doesn’t love or respect her, she wants to escape. Which is when she meets vivacious Elsie, who talks May into joining the nursing core. May knows nothing about nursing, but she feels that this is the very thing that could turn around her life.

Even though May is a hugely inspiring woman and what she did was amazing, while reading this I was at times in two frames of mind about May. There is no denying what she did was incredible and I am in awe and applaud everyone of those brave women who went to the front, but at times I felt at times she did act like a child herself, she needed stand up for herself more than she did. I felt she was as conflicted as the very war she was working in, I don’t think she was a strong women but she was a real one, she was plunged into a horrific war while her children were still at home. But what really made me soften towards May was her unrelenting compassion, loyalty and her unrelenting need to help those men who were experiencing the very worst that humans can do to on e and other.

I have to say that Lizzie Page is an unbelievably gifted writer, her absolute passion for these incredible women, the history and her thirst to share these wonderful stories with the world is evident in each page she has lovingly written, her love and passion comes through the story.

This is another powerful story that makes you stop and really take in what these women sacrificed for us, as with the war Nurses this isn’t just about bombarding the reading with sights and sounds from the front, this is about women coming together forming unbreakable friendships and doing their best to help. It’s a beautiful book and one that really needs to be read, no matter your views on the war we all need to hear these stories.

Emotional and expertly written!

A story of the role played by so many young women. Simple young girls acted as nurses and spies but sadly their bravery was never seen as important as the men. A really good read.

Daughters of War is the second installment of The War Nurses Series. It is a stand-alone novel, but if you have read the first novel--The War Nurses--it makes a little more sense as the author has included several characters in this second novel from the first. These novels are fictionalized history as they are based on women who served as nurses in WWI. In this second novel, May Turner is an American woman married to an alcoholic, abusive English husband when WWI breaks out. She is determined to follow in her grandmother's footsteps, who was a Civil War nurse, and go to the Western Front. She leaves behind her husband, friends, home and her two young daughters to serve as a volunteer nurse in France. This novel went from one I couldn't get into to one I couldn't put down. The author has done a lot of research and has put some history in the novel, but mainly it is about the lives of the characters that is the backbone of this book. She does not go into the horrors of war and the great hardships these women faced, but the story is good and held my interest. I will definitely read the next novel in the series when it is published.

This is a first for me by this author... but it won't be my last... I didn't realise there was a book before this one so will be hunting it down.

An emotional tale of wartime love and sacrifice, inspired by an incredible true story…

As a teenager in Chicago, May always dreamed of travelling the world. So when she meets handsome George Turner, she jumps at the chance to return to London as his wife. Ten years later, May is wondering if she’s made a terrible mistake.

It’s 1914 and war has been declared in Europe. All around, brave young men are being called up to serve. George, banned from conscription himself, has taken to the bottle, and May suspects he’s seeing other women too. She longs for a way to escape.

The chance comes when May meets veteran nurse Elsie, who persuades May to join the war effort. May knows nothing of nursing – it will be difficult, dangerous work, but her heart is telling her it’s the right thing to do.

But then George does the unthinkable and May’s future is put at risk. Will she have to make the impossible choice between duty to her family and her promise to the soldiers on the front line? And can she live with the consequences if her husband goes through with what he’s threatening to do?

Based on a true story... very realistic in everyway, even with the characters showing how love, war and hardships can happen no matter where you are... once I started I just could not put it down.
A beautiful gripping wartime story that I would recommend.

I look forward to more of this authors work.

Thank-You Netgalley for my ARC.

This book is based around World War One and covers some of the terrible events that happened in France, but was nevertheless a really good story and I shall look forward to The War Nurses series

Daughters of With is a gripping ,emotional, and wonderfully written novel. I was hooked from the first chapter and I can't wait for the next one.

Daughters of War is book two in the War Nurse series but reads perfectly well as a standalone.

Got to give it to her May is a very determined and brave character. For what she did I admire her and she is an inspiration. A truelly emotional story that will stick in your heart. I was behind May the whole way. The characters were all mostly likeable that excludes George GRR. Setting is perfectly introduced. There are many happy scenes in the story but there are many sad scenes too. Taking the reader into the war through Mays eyes.

I loved this story… I was immersed throughout. Beautifully written. I awarded a well deserved four stars. Highly recommend. I cannot wait to take a step book and read book one! A new author YAY!

I read and reviewed the first in the trilogy called ‘The War Nurses’. I have eagerly been waiting for the second book called ‘Daughters Of War’. Well now the wait is over as ‘Daughters Of War’ was released today (12th November 2018). I couldn’t wait to get started on the book and so I dived in as soon as I could. Oh my word it really is an emotive book, which couldn’t have been come along at a more appropriate time given that yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of 1918. I absolutely loved reading ‘Daughters Of War’ but more about that in a bit.
I couldn’t help but take to the character of May. She is a young American woman who moved to England to be with her husband. May married when she was a young girl and I think to a large degree she was very naïve about what her marriage and life in Britain was going to be like. She is the mother of two small girls, who are at boarding school but they do come during the school holidays. Bear in mind that May is not yet 30 years old and she has been through rather a lot in a relatively short space of time. Not only has she married but she has moved to another country and given birth to two girls. Her husband George isn’t a particularly pleasant character- or at least I didn’t think so. His treatment of May leaves a lot to be desired and he seems more bothered about spending time with his mistress and at the bottom of a bottle. Although George is the father of the girls, he doesn’t seem that interested in them. May lives a life of leisure and initially I think that she was bored out of her skull. She takes to her bed in a fit of depression, which is exacerbated by reading all the doom and gloom in the papers. Eventually May does get out and about and meets some people, who later become friends. Her new friends inspire her and embolden her as it were. May eventually goes off to be a nurse at the Western Front and it is there that she learns about the true horror of war and who she can trust.
Oh my word, this was one hell of an emotive read. The book seems even more poignant at the moment with it being the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. I was hooked from the moment I picked the book up and began to read. I had a great great Aunt, who was a nurse during the First World War and to read this book made me feel closer to her and I developed a better appreciation for the conditions that she had to work under and the appalling injuries that she must have seen. The more I read, the more I wanted to read and the quicker the pages turned. I was concentrating on the story and the characters so much that I didn’t realise just how quick I was getting through the book until I closed the back cover so to speak. I was enjoying the author’s writing style, the storylines and the characters so much that I just wanted the book to continue.
‘Daughters Of War’ is incredibly well written with characters, who seem to come to life and jump off the page so to speak. The author writes about them so well and so convincingly that they seem ‘real’ or at least they did to me. There were several times when I wished that I could have leapt inside the pages of the book to sort out George, May’s cheating scumbag of a husband and to give him a few dozen slaps across the face with a wet flip flop. The author grabs your attention from the start and much like a fisherman landing a catch, she reels you in.
In short, I loved reading this book and I can’t wait to read the concluding part of the trilogy. I would definitely recommend this author and her books to other readers. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a very well deserved 5* out of 5*.