Frontline

Frontline is the first book in a series charting the rise of a prominent British medical family in the twentieth century. From wars to a pandemic, the discovery of penicillin to the birth of the NHS, successive generations of the Burnett family are at the vanguard of life-saving developments in medicine.

Frontline is the story of an aristocrat's daughter who joins the war effort as a nurse. In a field hospital in rural France she meets Will, a dockworker's son serving as a stretcher-bearer. As rumours of an armistice begin to circulate, so too does a mysterious respiratory illness that soldiers are referring to as the 'Spanish flu'.

'The doctor hits the spot and deserves to be read.' - Jeffrey Archer

“'The doctor hits the spot and deserves to be read'”

-- Jeffrey Archer
'My diagnosis is that Frontline is a story to get the heart racing' Daily Express
'An enthralling tale and Jones' medical expertise never gets in the way of the action' Daily Mirror
'Dr Hilary is a master storyteller, and Frontline is an utterly absorbing page-turner' -- Lorraine Kelly, CBE
'Frontline succeeded where (Sebastian Faulks') Birdsong failed; in actually making me cry' National Federation of Pensioners magazine.
'This is an ambitious, sweeping epic of a story, visceral in its descriptions, and written with great insight and empathy' Historical Novel Society

Dr Hilary Jones is a General Practitioner and regular contributor to multiple newspapers and television shows. He is a well-known and trusted face to millions in the UK.

A drama set on the battlefields of Europe as a global influenza pandemic looms. Frontline is the first book in a series charting the rise of a prominent British medical family in the twentieth century. From wars to a pandemic, the discovery of penicillin to the birth of the NHS, successive generations of the Burnett family are at the vanguard of life-saving developments in medicine. Frontline is the story of an aristocrat's daughter who joins the war effort as a nurse. In a field hospital in rural France she meets Will, a dockworker's son serving as a stretcher-bearer. As rumours of an armistice begin to circulate, so too does a mysterious respiratory illness that soldiers are referring to as the 'Spanish flu'. 'The doctor hits the spot and deserves to be read.' - Jeffrey Archer

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