Flying Angels

 

Audrey and Lizzie lived lives of privilege.  Audrey wanted for nothing materially, loved her family, but was lonely after her father and brother died. She enters nursing school knowing she will care for her mother as her dementia progresses. She meets her best friend Lizzie in nursing school.  Lizzie is from a wealthy East Coast family.  She doesn't quite fit the mold and doesn't feel like she fits in with her family.  She's not interested in all the trappings of wealth.  They are appalled when she chooses a career in nursing.  After graduation, Lizzie works as a nurse and Audrey cares for her mother.  The war breaks out, Audrey's brother enlists and perishes in Pearl Harbor.  Audrey's mother dies and both Audrey and Lizzie enlist in the flying nurse corps.  They are stationed in England and join a troop of other nurses and health care professionals that retrieve those injured at the front line.  They are called the Flying Angels.

This is yet another Danielle Steel novel that does not disappoint.  The story of Audrey, Lizzie and the friends they make during the war is the real story.  It's a story of friendship, war, resilience and love.