Flight of the Wild Swan

De: Melissa Pritchard

Narrado por: Jayne Entwistle

A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine

Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent—one whose extraordinary life offers a grand lesson in inspired will.

©2024 Melissa Pritchard (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Fantastic story

Loved to hear about the life details about Florence Nightengale. Beautifully written, very personal and emotional.

Strange story

It was slow moving and did not capture my interest at all. I actually tried to listen to it a few times and each time gave up