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'Souhami's account is the best there is' Daily Express.
'A moving story, written from the heart' The Economist.
'Diana Souhami succeeds triumphantly in bringing the story of Edith Cavell to life' Literary Review.
'A refreshingly three-dimensional portrait of a strikingly single-minded woman' The Scotsman.
'Affection and admiration radiate through this biography ... Shattering stuff' Sunday Telegraph.
'an inspirational and humbling read' Daily Express.
'a moving tribute' Sunday Times.
'A moving story, written from the heart' The Economist.
'Diana Souhami succeeds triumphantly in bringing the story of Edith Cavell to life' Literary Review.
'A refreshingly three-dimensional portrait of a strikingly single-minded woman' The Scotsman.
'Affection and admiration radiate through this biography ... Shattering stuff' Sunday Telegraph.
'an inspirational and humbling read' Daily Express.
'a moving tribute' Sunday Times.
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'Souhami's account is the best there is' Daily Express. 'A moving story, written from the heart' The Economist. 'Diana Souhami succeeds triumphantly in bringing the story of Edith Cavell to life' Literary Review. 'A refreshingly three-dimensional portrait of a strikingly single-minded woman' The Scotsman. 'Affection and admiration radiate through this biography ... Shattering stuff' Sunday Telegraph. 'an inspirational and humbling read' Daily Express. 'a moving tribute' Sunday Times.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I can't recommend this book enough. It's not just about Edith Cavell who, I confess, I knew nothing about - just had a vague awareness of her name. Diana Souhami includes social and political details throughout, making this one of the most informative, educational books I've ever read. But you never feel like you're getting a history lesson as her style is incredibly interesting, simple and clear. I now feel like I know and understand both Edith Cavell and the period she lived in.
After reading this book it's made me want to read more by Diana Souhami.
After reading this book it's made me want to read more by Diana Souhami.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Souhami's book is an extremely well written account of Edith Cavell's life from childhood in Swardston to her death in Belgium and beyond. What is so unusual about the book is that it is not only a factual account but a very god read (hard to put down) this in my view puts it on par with Fraser's Cromwell Our Chief Of Men and Desmond and Moore's Darwin. The book really comes alive with the account of her trial and time in prison, Souhami makes Cavell live (become alive) through her book. I ended up feeling i knew her and how her faith lead her to live the life that she did. Read and enjoy, you may end up as i have wondering about the nature of belief and why people act as they do.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book goes behind the accepted portrayal of this British heroine and attempts to reveal a real person. I found the background details on her times useful and interesting. She began life as a Victorian and died as a martyr in World War 1. I found it refreshing that the reports of her during her nursing training were not all unalloyed praise, that sometimes her superiors and peers were not overly impressed by her, it makes her seem more human. To me she came over as an Everywomen, doing her best and keeping her integrity at a time when so many others were overcome by the self serving, cowardly and just self protecting side of human nature.She comes across as a women of great dignity and few words, whose work, family and pets were an abiding interest and who ended up playing a tragic role almost by accident. She did what she thought was right and that was enough to rob her of the quiet future, caring for her mother and setting up a home for retired nurses with her sister, that she had imagined. Her very ordinariness is what makes her so inspiring. She should appear on our bank notes and in citizenship classes, as a world citizen. Diana Souhami did a service to biography in retelling her story.
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Edith Cavell, Nurse, Martyr, Heroine
Edith Cavell - Nurse, martyr, heroine - and incredibly obstinate! This is a powerful read. Although the end is known from the beginning, nonetheless the tension mounts and is... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Hamlet
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A statue stands in St Martin's Place in London that commemorates that most revered of nurses, Edith Cavell. Read more
Published 2 months ago by magsem
What a disappointment!!!
If I had wanted an autobiography of D Souliham this would have been perfect! Ithad so little of the real Edith Cavell in it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Seasider
Cavell story
Such an emotive book and so meticulously and laboriously researched (at least I assume it's meticulous rather than a bunch of lies). Read more
Published 4 months ago by Robert T. Graham
inaccurate pics
excellent book but throwing in pictures of world war 1 without checking the accuracy of date is wrong. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. G. J. H. Mclaughlin
Disappointing
My curiosity about Edith Cavell was piqued by her statue in London, near St Martin's-in-the-Field, with its inspiring quotation, 'Patriotism is not enough'. Read more
Published 17 months ago by T. Bently
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