The Daisy Styles series, now ten books in total, would never have happened without a great team who work tirelessly and meticulously with me, especially so during Covid times when it’s proved to be even more important to have open channels of communication. So, it’s huge thanks to my editors at Penguin, Rebecca Hilsdon and Clare Bowron, for their energy, enthusiasm and focus, and to Donna Poppy, my copy-editor – an amazing perfectionist. My grateful thanks also go to Dr Clive Glazebook and Senior Midwife Patsy Glazebrook for their obstetrics knowledge and their patience with my questions about childbirth in the Second World War, which was vastly different to how maternity units operate now. And finally, as ever, this book is for all of those wonderful nameless women conscripted to work where they were sent and do their duty without question or complaint. I salute you all.

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