With a Silent Companion
Florida Ann Town
Juvenile Fiction / Girls & Women • Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Military & Wars
Juvenile Fiction / Family / General • Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Emotions & Feelings
Ages 9–14 • 112 pages • 5 1/4 x 8 1/4"
ISBN 0–88995–211–6 paper • CDN 9.95 • USA 7.95

Inspired by a true story, With a Silent Companion recounts the remarkable journey of Margaret Anne Bulkley, a young woman born in nineteenth–century Ireland. Her heart broken by the constant threat of poverty but her spirit awakened by the challenge of two gentlemen, Margaret enrolls in medicine at Edinburgh University and, after years of dedicated study, becomes a surgeon. It is a story of struggle and triumph made all the more exceptional because Margaret Anne Bulkley does it disguised as a man. And she maintains her masquerade for almost fifty years of medical service with the British Army.

Reviews
"Won't be easily forgotten by those who read it."
–Booklist

"An intriguing, fascinating, historical novel. . . . This is the stuff of which movies and mini-series are made. Highly recommended."
–Wisconsin Bookwatch