Compassionate Adventure

Josephine Bell

May 2012 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

It is summer in 1920s England and a group of friends are enjoying one of many weekends at Mayfield, the Wyndham family’s country home. Amid the gaiety of punting on the river, tea on the lawn and lavish parties, a love triangle emerges: Caroline, thought by everyone to be heading for engagement to George, surprises everyone by agreeing to a Philip’s sudden proposal, leaving George distraught.

Six months later Caroline and Philip marry but it is not long before she realises that people are not always as they appear and that Philip has been hiding a secret . . .

As the years slip by Caroline’s marriage is plagued by fears that she made a horrible mistake and a tragic turn of events takes her life down an unexpected path.

About the author

Josephine Bell was born Doris Bell Collier in Manchester, England. Between 1910 and 1916 she studied at Godolphin School, then trained at Newnham College, Cambridge until 1919. At the University College Hospital in London she was granted M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1922, and a M.B. B.S. in 1924.

Bell was a prolific author, writing forty-three novels and numerous uncollected short stories during a forty-five year period.

Many of her short stories appeared in the London Evening Standard. Using her pen name she wrote numerous detective novels beginning in 1936, and she was well-known for her medical mysteries. Her early books featured the fictional character Dr. David Wintringham who worked at Research Hospital in London as a junior assistant physician. She helped found the Crime Writers' Association in 1953 and served as chair during 1959-60.