Amazing read!

Tomorrow Is for the Brave by Kelly Bowen    

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Violet St. Croix is born into a wealthy English family. Her mother and Violet spend their time at the family villa in Nice. Her father, Commodore Robert St. Croix joins them from London as time and his important work permits. Violet is being groomed towards a successful marriage within the circle of a their  acquaintances. In fact her fiancée has already been decided on.

Driving becomes her eccentric hobby that will be put away when she marries. Only it isn’t and it doesn’t. 

It’s 1939. War is coming and Violet volunteers with the French nursing corps. Her family disown her.

How Violet ends up as a driver for generals and colonels is part of her extraordinary story that begins with Violet being just another idle rich girl who loves driving. That morphs over time into the story of a brave, formidable woman.  Violet spends the war as firstly a nurse and then a driver in Finland, then Africa with the French Foreign Legion, going onto Tunisia, Libya then in Italy and beyond. Inspired by the achievements of Susan Travers the only woman to become a serving member of the French Foreign Legion. Bowen’s research and afterwards is formidable. 

Violet is given the name of La Fleur by the men in this is a sensational novel, brilliantly depicting one woman’s war.

There’s intrigue, treason, love and betrayal. A startling novel. I totally succumbed!

A Forever (Grand Central Pub.) ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.