Susan May Warren
returns to the battlefields
of World War II in
Nightingale (Summerside
Press). Wolfgang Jager—raised in America but
serving in the German
Army—is captured and
returned to a Wisconsin
POW camp where he
begins to correspond with
Nurse Esther Lang, a
woman grieving the death
of her fiance.
“The key
to writing a
great
historical is
getting the
details
right,” says
Susan.
“Everything from clothing
to music to the mindset of
the time needs to seep
through the pages. It
takes me twice as long to
write a historical because
of all the research to get it
right. But there’s nothing
better than feeling as if
you’ve been transported
back in time to another
era, to live in their world,
consider their choices and
understand their lessons.”
