Stella Bain

Stella Bain by Anita Shreve
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A woman wakes up in an outside French hospital, set near the front lines of a battle during World War I. She has been injured but has no recollection of her name or her past. As something stirs in her mind, she grabs onto the name of Stella Bain and claims it as her own.


This book provided a look at women who suffered from shell shock, unheard of before World War I, men called it female hysteria - even for those women who worked near the front lines, nurses, and female ambulance drivers. Freud was just discovering that talking and feedback would help those who complained of what we now call Post Traumatic Distress Disorder.

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