Not So Quiet . . .: A humorous and immersive anti-war novel of female camaraderie on the frontline of WWI. Introduced by Alice Winn (The Mermaid Collection)

Rediscover the brilliance of Not So Quiet . . . in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers. Inspired by perennial classic All Quiet on the Western Front, this is an unforgettable novel of war work, camaraderie and female friendship on the battlefields of WWI, and the brave and misled women who fought the good fight . . . With a foreword by Alice Winn ‘What is to happen to women like me when this war ends … if it ever ends.I am twenty-one, yet I know nothing but death, fear, blood and sentimentality that glorifies in the name of patriotism.’Nell Smith is one of England’s ‘Splendid Daughters’, middle-class women abroad doing their bit for King and Country in World War One.At just 21, she pays for the privilege of driving an ambulance to ferry the dying and wounded between the front line and hospital. Facing constant shellfire, half frozen, fed on inedible slop, with no sleep and enduring the lashing ton