Some Sunny Day: How One Wartime Nurse Found Love on the Frontline

Details Author Reviews Description Madam, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to inform you that your acceptance as a member of the VAD for employment has been approved with effect from 16th June 1944Madge Lambert had never been further from her hometown of Dover than London, yet not long after qualifying as a nurse she boarded a ship which would take her thousands of miles away to Burma. She could barely imagine what life would be like there: how hot could it really be? Would there really be no fresh milk for tea? How would she bear being so far from the white cliffs of home?While she knew that her time in Chittagong would be tough, she couldn’t have imagined the horrors that war would present her. Yet she also found friendship and camaraderie among the other nurses and troops. It was in Burma that Madge would also meet the man who was to be the love of her life, Captain Basil Lambert. Would their fragile newfound love be able to survive the heady, violent final weeks of the Second World War and the challenges that would follow?Heart-warming, romantic and moving, Some Sunny Day is also story of struggle and resolve. Madam, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to inform you that your acceptance as a member of the VAD for employment has been approved with effect from 16th June 1944Madge Lambert had never been further from her hometown of Dover than London, yet not long after qualifying as a nurse she boarded a ship which would take her thousands of miles away to Burma. She could barely imagine what life would be like there: how hot could it really be? Would there really be no fresh milk for tea? How would she bear being so far... Read More

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