Nightingales Series by Donna Douglas
Nightingales #3
The Nightingale Nurses
Donna Douglas
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.
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Nightingales #4
Nightingales on Call
Donna Douglas
1937 sees new challenges for the trainee nursesDora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children’s ward for the final three months of their training. The two nurses couldn’t seem more different, but they may have more in common than they think, as each hides a secret heartache.… and new faces at the NightingaleJess is the feisty eldest daughter of a notorious East End family and determined to prove herself as a ward maid.And new trainee nurse Effie can’t wait to escape her small Irish village, and make her way as a nurse in London. But Effie’s sister Katie soon begins to worry that Effie’s behaviour is out of control.Nightingales on call and in crisis: have they got what it takes?
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Nightingales #5
A Nightingale Christmas Wish
Donna Douglas
As Christmas 1938 approaches, the staff at the Nightingale Hospital 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.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…
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