Set in 1850s Wales, London and the Crimea, Jane Evans is a novel about the real first woman on the drove, who also nursed under Florence Nightingale. Fleeing her harsh life in rural Wales, Jane ends up nursing wounded soldiers in inhuman conditions in the Crimea. Can she survive the dangers and return to Wales – and what will await her there?

• Prologue
• 1 – A Terrible Inheritance
• 2 – A Fair Price
• 3 – Sharp and Quick
• 4 – No Place for a Woman
• 5 – Uprooted
• 6 – Nothing to Ruin
• 7 – Skinny Piece of Nonsense
• 8 – Under Attack
• 9 – Thinking Is a Waste of Time
• 10 – Like a Friend
• 11 – Remember the Sabbath
• 12 – The Right Price
• 13 – In the Darkest Hour
• 14 – Truth Will Out
• 15 – At Barnet Market
• 16 – Stepping into a Woman’s Clothes
• 17 – To War with Y Beibl
• 18 – Beyond Imagining
• 19 – Fighting Spirit Is What We Need
• 20 – A Helper, Not a Nurse
• 21 – Comfort
• 22 – Shock and Exhaustion
• 23 – Forsaken
• 24 – Patience, Experience, Hope
• 25 – The British Hotel
• 26 – A Thing of Beauty
• 27 – Fever
• 28 – A Fallen Woman
• 29 – Letters
• 30 – Tourists of War
• 31 – Into The Breach
• 32 – A Root, Not a Branch
• 33 – Thoughts of an Ending
• 34 – Another Country
• 35 – Isaac
• 36 – Changes
• 37 – A Story
• 38 – Aunt Anni’s Boots
• Glossary
• Acknowledgements