title: Finding Helen: The Letters, Photographs and Diary of a WWI Battlefield Nurse
author: Brooke B. Cameron
description: Brooke B. Cameron is a professor Emerita of Art at the University of Missouri. She is a printmaker who has taught and exhibited nationally and internationally for over 40 years. Her interest in family history was always propelled by the images in old family photo albums. Some of the photos appear in her intaglio prints. She still works in the MU studios. Janice C. Collins is a retired Medical Technologist (MT, ASCP). She works at the Milwaukee Public Museum as a guide and does research for Historic Milwaukee. In her spare time she plays tennis, gardens and volunteers for various performing arts companies.
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  ### **About the Author**
  
  
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  Helen Carey was born in Oxford and lived in London for many years. Before she
  began writing she had a range of jobs, including tour guide, army officer and
  management consultant. Her Lavender Road novels were inspired by a chance
  encounter with a neighbour who showed her the sites of the air-raid shelters
  on Clapham Common. She occasionally teaches creative writing and is a Fellow
  of the Royal Literary Fund.
  
  
  Helen now lives with her husband and two dogs in Wales.
  
  
  ## Acknowledgements
  
  
  It is impossible to list all the people who have helped me with this novel.
  Whether it was instructing me about wartime factory production lines,
  explaining the intricacies of live fire artillery drill, or in Dani O’Connor’s
  case, giving me a twice-monthly shoulder massage, their input has been
  invaluable and I am truly grateful.
  
  
  Particular thanks have to go to Eirian Short whose amazing me