![]() ![]() However, she maintained her nursing license until the day she died because she was so proud of having earned it. My mother had spent years as an RN before a knee injury sidelined her. Looking back on it, I suppose writing about Florence was fate. How did you settle on writing about her?Ĭhristine Trent: She really was remarkable, wasn’t she? A one-woman wrecking ball to the firmly entrenched private and military medical establishments. ![]() Robin Agnew for Mystery Scene: I love both Florence Nightingale your character, and Florence Nightingale the person. The first one had a bit of a goth feel, the second plunges Florence into the heart of Victorian London, with all it’s plusses and minuses. I read Christine Trent’s first Florence Nightingale book, No Cure for the Dead, and loved her fresh take on a great historical figure as well as her mad skills at crafting a traditional detective novel. Eleven books ago, when I first started writing, I made the decision to write about women in unusual professions. ![]()
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