The Lives of Stella Bain Shreve, Anita

A woman wakes in a field hospital in France, 1916. She doesn't know her name. She doesn't know where she's from. All she knows is the urgency in her hands — the muscle memory of a nurse under fire. They call her Stella Bain because she has to be called something. As fragments of her past surface, Stella begins a transatlantic journey to uncover who she was before the war erased her. What she finds is more complicated than amnesia: a life she fled, a marriage that broke her, and a self she buried long before the shells started falling. Anita Shreve weaves war, identity, and the constraints of early 20th-century womanhood into a quietly devastating portrait of reinvention. For readers who loved *The Nightingale* or anyone drawn to WWI fiction with psychological depth.