![]() Sasha, meanwhile, is reluctantly allowed by her father to start work as a VAD nurse at the hospital where he works, as it begins to overflow with young soldiers. However, when Edgar is killed in battle, Tom changes his mind and joins the British Army as an officer. While Sasha's brother Edgar is keen to fight for his country and enlists right away, her brother Tom is much more reluctant and chooses to go to Manchester to study medicine, with their father hoping he will eventually join the Medical Corps. She longs to be a nurse, but struggles with the societal expectation that women of her class don't do that type of work. Seventeen-year-old Alexandra "Sasha" Fox is the privileged daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton, England. ![]() It is 1915 and the World War I has just begun. It takes place during the beginning of World War I, following a 17-year-old British girl named Sasha who has premonitions of death. ![]() ![]() The Foreshadowing is a historical fiction novel by Marcus Sedgwick published in 2005. ![]()
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