AustLit

'Meg Dorset escapes Darwin after the city is bombed by the Japanese. Travelling south in a truck filled with injured soldiers, she meets the charmer, Seamus Flanagan. In the confines of the army camp at Adelaide River, it doesn’t take long for them to fall in love and become engaged. When Seamus is shipped out to join the war in the north, Meg is transferred to the RAAF hospital in Townsville.

'On arrival, Meg is dismayed to find she is pregnant, but holds the news to herself to avoid the risk of discharge. Working as head nurse to Dr Geoffrey Ransom, Meg pushes away her growing feelings for this kind and dedicated doctor. She is engaged and carrying her fiancé’s child, so she immerses herself into her work.

'As her pregnancy develops Meg is torn. How can she continue with the career she is passionate about, and keep her pregnancy a secret?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Gracie Ransom believes the world is a wonderful place. It is 1969, men have landed on the moon and she’s about to study Medicine at university. Growing up in Perth, Western Australia, her childhood has been happy and secure. She’s graduated top of the state, and her future looks bright. But like her mother, Gracie encounters barriers to her ambition simply because she is a woman in a world dominated by men. Her kind, intelligent father is an exception, encouraging her to be the best she can be. And Mike, her mechanic boyfriend at the RFDS at Jandakot Airport, tells her she can be a pilot if she wants to be. While young men are being conscripted to fight in Vietnam, Gracie wages war against the establishment, pushing the boundaries for women’s rights, but soon discovers it is difficult for one woman make a difference. When Mike returns from Vietnam, he’s changed, and Gracie struggles to get through to him. As Gracie fights for her place in the world, she becomes a voice against the injustices visited on her generation.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.