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The Swan Maid
Lottie Lane works as a chambermaid at a busy London inn, enduring exhausting labour and the cruelty of its landlady. Her life changes when an injured soldier is brought to the Swan and she nurses him through the wounds that nearly kill him.
Following the regiment from Chatham, Lottie travels towards a distant battlefield and experiences the hardship surrounding military life. Tragedy eventually returns her to London without security, where she must begin again while carrying the consequences of war and loss.
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