Evadne Price was asked to write a lighthearted spoof of All Quiet on the Western Front, but went a different way after reading the diary of a woman ambulance driver in France. Not So Quiet…Stepdaughters of War pulls no punches describing people put into the meat-grinder of war by those comfortably far from danger. Lucy Scholes calls her feminist novel, joining the US public domain in 33 days, “a shattering denunciation of the jingoism that kept the war machine turning.” #PublicDomainDayCountdown