![]() ![]() ![]() He finally (and surprisingly) relents, allowing Sasha to help at his hospital with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Father specializes in neurasthenia (shell shock). Tom attends medical school in Manchester with little blessing from his father, who is a stern, arrogant, controlling disciplinarian, and prefers that Tom go off to fight in the war. Edgar receives his commission as an officer and travels to the battlefront in France. Their older brother Edgar is much bigger and stronger, while Tom is a worrier. Sasha hopes to become a nurse, while brother Tom desires medical school like his father. They live in 1915 Brighton, England, at the beginning of World War I, which is forecasted to end soon. Now I am seventeen.' Since she spoke out that she did not want her friend Clare to die, there has been a wall between Sasha and her family. In first-person journal-style narrative, Alexandra (Sasha) begins her story: ' I was five when I first saw the future. ![]()
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