Dr Hilary Jones’ debut novel focuses on a pandemic sweeping the trenches of First World War France. Set on the battlefields of Europe as a global influenza pandemic looms, Frontline is the first book in a series charting the rise of a British medical family in the twentieth century. From wars to a pandemic, the discovery of penicillin to the birth of the NHS, successive generations of the Burnett family are involved in developments in medicine.

Frontline is the story of an aristocrat's daughter who joins the war effort as a nurse. In a field hospital in rural France she meets Will, a dockworker's son serving as a stretcher-bearer. As rumours of an armistice begin to circulate, so too does a mysterious respiratory illness that soldiers are referring to as the 'Spanish flu'.