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Tomorrow, Jerusalem

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Sally Smith, a young woman battling with a life of poverty and living a hand-to-mouth existense, is also caring for Toby,whom she found abandoned in the docklands of London in the early years of the 20th century.Escaping from a brutal attacker, she is rescued and cared for by the Patten family, the father and one of the sons being doctors and the daughter an ardent suffragette.After her body heals from the knife attack, Sally becomes involved with the family's charitable work and also with the Pankhurst movement.She falls in love with and marries Philippe van Damme, a cousin of the Pattens and returns with him to Belgium to live with his family until the outbreak of WW1 and the subsequent death of Philippe. Returning to England with her daughter,she becomes a nurse in the battlefields of France, leaving her daughter with the Pattens.The elder Patten son, Dr.Ben Patten who is working at field hospitals in France, meets Sally again and a torrid love affair begins.Ben is unhappily married to a member of the Patten household, Charlotte whom he married to save from social ostracism after she was raped and made pregnant by her rapist.The story continues until the end of the war with the characters working out their futures and growing stronger with their ultimate decisions.