That said, I was a little less invested in these characters than I usually am with Sarah’s excellent stories but I haven’t been able to quite determine why. Sarah creates sympathetic characters, instilled with a good dose of authenticity and readers will be encouraged and challenged by Georgie’s battle for independence and courage, and Hutch’s struggle with pride and with what becomes an unhealthy obsession with gaining the respect of his peers and the recognition of his vocation within the military hierarchy. Both Hutch and Georgie are battling people’s preconceptions and prejudices, in their jobs and on the home front. As always, Sarah provides detailed insight into the era, the people, the military, and more particularly in this novel, the fascinating plight of trained pharmacists, who were not considered experts in their field by the military and were treated accordingly. Sarah Sundin continues her excellent series on the lives and loves of the dedicated women who became flight nurses during World War II.

While Georgie and Hutch share a love of the starry night skies over Sicily, their lives back home are falling apart.Ĭan they weather the hurt and betrayal? Or will the pressures of war destroy the fragile connection they’ve made? Hutch resents the lack of respect he gets as a noncommissioned serviceman and hates how the war keeps him from his fiancée. But in July 1943, Georgie’s cozy life gets decidedly more complicated when she meets pharmacist Sgt. A comfortable boyfriend back home, a loving family, and a challenging job as a flight nurse. Georgiana Taylor has everything she could want.

On Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin