When Clara Cooper’s abusive husband is lost in action during the Fall of France, she grabs the opportunity to disappear, secretly returning to nursing.
Although Britain is on the brink of invasion, she finds a comforting anonymity working in the vast military hospital on the south coast. However, more than pain and suffering lurk in the misty corridors.
Who is the mysterious girl Clara nurses through a barbaric night of treatment in the ‘fever box’? And who is haunting the opium dreams of badly-burned pilot Dougie Douglas?
As frightening and malevolent events accelerate, Clara becomes convinced that her husband has returned, forcing her to face a danger far greater than anything the nightly bombing raids can bring.
The Fever Box by LP Fergusson is published on 4 January, 2024.
Read Loraine’s new feature about the courageous men who inspired the character of Dougie; RAF pilots who survived both life-altering injuries during WWII and the surgery which followed.
