Three very different girls sign up as student nurses in January 1936, while England is still mourning the death of George V. Dora is a tough East Ender, driven by ambition, but also desperate to escape her squalid, overcrowded home and her abusive stepfather. Helen is the quiet one, a mystery to her fellow nurses, avoiding fun, gossip and the limelight. In fact she is in the formidable shadow of her overbearing mother, who dominates every aspect of her life. Can a nursing career free Helen at last? The third of our heroines is naughty, rebellious Millie -- aka Lady Camilla -- an aristocrat on the run from her conventional upper class life. She is doomed to clash over and over again with terrifying Sister Hyde and to get into scrape after scrape especially where men are concerned. This utterly delightful novel brings a London pre-war hospital vividly to life.

The Nightingale Girls: (Nightingales 1)

Literature & Fiction

Douglas, Donna

Genre Fiction

Preface Digital

The lives and loves of young nurses at the Nightingale Hospital in the 30s entwine with the stories of the ward sisters, each with her own heart-rending secret.      To the Nightingale student nurses, the ward sisters are heartless, hard to please harridans, with impossibly high standards. But what makes a woman give up any hope of family life to care for the sick?     Take Violet Tanner, the new Night Sister. Who is she, and where did she come from? She is certainly giving nothing away -- her story seems to change every time she tells it. The other sisters soon grow suspicious -- and one of them is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Or Sister Blake, best friend of Matron Kathleen Fox. No one -- not even Matron -- has ever guessed the full extent of Sister Blake's secret heartache. What will happen when her skeletons come rattling out of the closet? And then there is Sister Holmes, struggling with a promise she cannot keep. How long will it be before she cracks? And who will suffer the fallout when she does?

The Nightingale Girls

Romance

Historical

Arrow

Fans of Call the Midwife will enjoy this." -- Woman's Own on The Nightingale Girls. The Nightingale Hospital, 1936: the student nurses see the arrival of a patient who is also a fortune teller. But will her predictions for Helen, Dora and Millie come true? Helen is still battling with her domineering mother over her future and her love life, whilst trying to come to terms with the death of her beloved fiance. Helen is at a crossroads in her life, and begins to consider her entire future in nursing. Dora can't stop loving Nick, who is married to her best friend, Ruby. But Ruby is hiding a dark secret with the potential to destroy her marriage. And Millie is anxious about her fiance Sebastian, sent to Spain to cover the Civil War. She fears what the mysterious new patient has foretold about what lies ahead for her. With war looming in Europe, and London squaring up to the threat of Oswald Mosley's blackshirts, the women of the Nightingale have to face their own challenges, at work and in love. The third book in Donna Douglas' Nightingale series, featuring the lives and loves of a group of student nurses in the 1930s.

The Nightingale Nurses

From the author of The Nightingale Girls, The Nightingale Sisters and The Nightingale Nurses -- perfect for fans of Call the Midwife.      At the Nightingale Hospital, things aren't always as they seem... Dora is completing her training as a Nurse on the Children's Ward. With her love life on hold, and her nemesis pointing out her every flaw, will Dora be allowed to stay at the Nightingale?Helen is adjusting to life as a qualified nurse, making new friends, and trying to put her husband's death behind her.Lucy has it all -- brains, beauty and money in spades. But as her fragile family life falls apart, what will she learn about her family, her friends, and most of all, herself.With war looming in the future, the students, nurses and sisters have to face up to the fact that that people are not always as they first appear.

Nightingales on Call

From the author of The Nightingale Girls, The Nightingale Sisters and The Nightingale Nurses -- perfect for fans of Call the Midwife. As Christmas 1938 approaches, the staff at the Nightingale Hospital in Bethnal Green have their own wishes for the festive season. Ward sister Frannie Wallace is hoping she won't have to live through another war like the one that claimed her beloved fiance. But with bomb defences going up all around London, it seems as if her hopes are in vain. Then the arrival of a young man on her ward sets off an unexpected chain of events that may change her life forever. Staff Nurse Helen Dawson wants to find happiness again after the death of her husband Charlie. A handsome stranger seems to offer the chance she wants. But is she looking for love in the wrong place? Matron Kathleen Fox struggles to keep up morale amongst her nurses as the hospital faces the threat of evacuation. But while everyone else worries about the future of the Nightingale, it's for her own future that Kathleen truly fears. As the country prepares itself for war, one thing is for sure -- by the time next Christmas comes, nothing at the Nightingale Hospital will be the same again.

A Nightingale Christmas Wish

Nightingales at War (6)

Christmas, 1941, and the nurses at the Nightingale are facing their toughest winter yet. With shortages everywhere, and every news bulletin announcing more defeats and losses, the British people are weary and demoralized, and The Nightingale Hospital is suffering, too. Millie is recently widowed and dealing with the demands of her family’s estate. It’s not long before her old world of The Nightingale begins to beckon, along with a long-lost love. Jess is struggling with her move from East London to the quiet of the countryside. Effie finds herself exiled to a quiet village, but the quiet doesn’t last for long as she soon finds excitement in the shape of a smooth-talking GI. As Christmas approaches, even the shelter of the countryside can’t protect the girls from heartache.

Nightingales Under the Mistletoe (7)

Frankie Ford is honest and hardworking and has ambitions to become a ward sister at a prestigious London teaching hospital. But, hiding a secret, Frankie flees her comfortable home counties life to begin training as a district nurse in the poverty-stricken streets of Leeds. The first book in this brand new saga series from Donna Douglas will follow Frankie and her fellow trainee district nurses as they grapple with their own problems, and those of life in the Yorkshire mining town.

The Nurses of Steeple Street

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The Nightingale Girls: (Nightingales 1)

The Nightingale Girls

The Nightingale Nurses

Nightingales on Call

A Nightingale Christmas Wish

Nightingales at War (6)

Nightingales Under the Mistletoe (7)

The Nurses of Steeple Street

The Nightingale Girls

The Nightingale Nurses