Shockingly visceral. . . . A new generation of readers would do well to turn to Price's novel," inspired by true diaries of a woman ambulance driver in WWI ( The Paris Review ). When Helen Smith signed on to drive ambulances near the front lines of WWI, her family was proud she would contribute to the war effort. But two months in, Helen, now dubbed Smithy by the band of women she serves with, has already been transformed by the terror of nightly rides through the darkness, hauling young men wounded beyond recognition from the battlefield to the field hospital. For Smithy and her fellow drivers, the war—life—will never look the same again. Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its "furious, indignant power" and winner of the Prix Severigne in France as "the novel most calculated to promote international peace," Not So Quiet offers a stark and undeniably feminist look at the harrowing impact of war.