Stephen Beaton qualifies as a doctor shortly before the outbreak of WWII, and gains his pilot's license at the same time. When he is sent to a front-line airfield as a medical orderly he is frustrated at being neither able to fly, nor having any challenging medical cases. However when his comrade Digger is badly burned in air crash it emerges that Stephen has a talent for plastic surgery, and he is posted to a severe burns unit in Kent. There he can put his talent for reconstructive surgery to good use, but there too Digger is falling in love with the girl Stephen's been in love with all his life...
- ISBN10 0340748702
- ISBN13 9780340748701
- Publish Date 21 January 2000 (first published 29 November 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Coronet Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 446
- Language English