This is the follow-up book to A Girl Called Thursday. The first book covered the first two years of the war as Thursday Tilford joined the Navy as a Volunteer Nurse. A Promise To Keep covers the remainder of the war years, and has Thursday being sent to nurse in Egypt for a couple of years and then back to Haslar Naval Hospital in Portsmouth.

The book follows Thursday and her friends through their trials as nurses and for some it’s romance and engagements, for others death or widowhood. Thursday meets a new man in Egypt, another doctor who declares himself in love with her, and this one may be the one to make her forget her promise to Connor.

As the war comes to an end the young nurses face the uncertainty of civilian life, they realize how much they have changed over these war years and that they can’t go back to the way things used to be. Women have learned to manage careers and have no desire to let the men come home and take over. Thursday also has a difficult romantic choice to make between her two doctors.

A well written story that the author obviously researched extensively, I enjoyed following these nurses through their war years. Lilian Harry is an author that I can rely on to provide a very readable story and with A Promise To Keep she continues to please. ( )