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A NURSE ABROAD
Non-Fiction (Memoir) 289 pages
Simon & Schuster - May 2012
In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse with the world at her feet. Her adventurous spirit meant that at the first opportunity she set sail for northern Canada, to work among the Inuit people. Her extraordinary experiences fuelled her taste for remote places, and she soon took her skills to the Australian outback.
Deadly snakes, staff who went walkabout, and maggot therapy, were just some of surprises she encountered working in a tough cattle-ranching community living in close proximity with Aboriginal people. 40 years later, Anne returned to both countries to see how life has changed in Eskimo Point and Alice Springs, and what has become of its people and landscape. For almost 50 years Anne has brought her courage and compassion to those most in need of help all across the world. This is her remarkable story. -
ALWAYS THE CHILDREN: A Nurse's Story of Home and War
Non-Fiction (Memoir) 380 pages
Simon & Schuster - March 3, 2011
'In reading the book, I lived with Anne Watts through her experiences, full of admiration for her grit and compassion. It's the most touching testimony to the pity of war and she is such a natural story-teller.'
-- Lyndall Gordon, Biographer
'A magnificent life story. I feel humbled by Anne Watts' experiences.'
-- Jennifer Worth, author of CALL THE MIDWIFEA powerful, moving memoir of nursing in war zones, and a painful family secret. Anne's vivid descriptions sear themselves on the heart, as she confronts human cruelty, but also illustrates the courage and self-sacrifice of so many people in situations of crisis. Spent several weeks in Top Ten UK paperback non-fiction lists.
Biography
Born in Wales, Anne has been a dedicated nurse all her life and has worked in Vietnam, Thailand, Southern Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and The Canadian Rockies, among other far-flung places.
ALWAYS THE CHILDREN: A Nurse's Story of Home and War is published by Simon & Schuster in the UK and Unieboek in Holland, and has been widely praised and her second book, A NURSE ABROAD, is due to be published this summer.
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