Hummingbird

<p>From the author of the acclaimed <em>The Curiosity</em> comes a compelling and moving story of compassion courage and redemption.</p><p>Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband Michael returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares anxiety and rage. She is determined to help him heal and to restore the tender loving marriage they once had.</p><p>At the same time Deborah's primary patient is Barclay Reed a retired history professor and expert in the Pacific Theater of World War II whose career ended in academic scandal. Alone in the world the embittered professor is dying. As Barclay begrudgingly comes to trust Deborah he tells her stories from that long-ago war which help her find a way to help her husband battle his demons.</p><p>Told with piercing empathy and heartbreaking realism <em>The Hummingbird</em> is a masterful story of loving commitment service to country and absolution through wisdom and forgiveness.</p>