Going Home : A Novel

Written by Levin author Carole Brungar, the award-winning author of The Nam Legacy and The Nam Shadow, Going Home takes us back to the Vietnam War in the sixties, to propaganda-fueled war, a determined enemy and a fragile hope for survival.When Wellingtonian Ronnie McIlroy volunteers to spend twelve months nursing in a South Vietnamese hospital, she is ill-prepared for a poverty-stricken country at war and the basic hospital conditions she would find herself assigned to. Hard-working, she knuckles down to do all that she can to help. She is cautious when she meets an American pilot, Joseph Hunter Jr. They know the odds are stacked against a relationship with the war between the North and South escalating and hundreds of lives being lost every day. As Ronnie and Joe navigate the constant dangers of living and working in a war zone, it's clear fate has decided their time and place to fall in love is now. But will one naive act of compassion destroy any chance of a life together? Will either of them leave Vietnam alive?