Man On The Other Side

Ruth has spent her whole life belonging to no one. Raised in an orphanage, she learns early that the world offers nothing for free. When the Great War erupts, she volunteers for France not out of patriotism alone, but because service promises something she's never had: a place, a purpose, a self she can claim. She becomes a nurse, she changes, she transforms. Then she marries into a life she never imagined possible. But how does a woman who fought for her own survival fit into a world still ruled by the men who sent her to war? And what happens when her husband discovers the full truth of where she came from? Ada Barnett's novel examines the silent revolution that happened behind the trenches: the women who left the margins and discovered they might not want to return to them.