Not So Quiet...

Smith, Helen Zenna

Nell Smith is one of England's 'Splendid Daughters', middle-class women abroad doing their bit for King and Country in World War One. At just 21, she pays for the privilege of driving an ambulance to ferry the dying and wounded between the front line and hospital. Facing constant shellfire, half frozen, fed on inedible slop, with no sleep and enduring the lashing tongue of commandant 'Mrs Bitch', Nell and her sister drivers entertain no illusions about the war - unlike friends and family back home. Only their comradeship and letters from distant lovers sustains them. As the war grinds on, the lottery of who lives and who dies creeps closer to Nell herself. A naïve girl volunteered for this. But who is this broken woman nightly driving blind through hell itself?

Author(s): Zenna, Smith, Helen
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 22/10/2026
Pagination: 320 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Penguin Books
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Classification: Historical fiction|First World War fiction|France|France
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 15
Weight: 192
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781405997065