The Nightingale Girls - Hardcover

Douglas, Donna

4.25

3,210 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750536330 ISBN 13: 9780750536332

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2013

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Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora leaves her overcrowded, squalid working-class home for a better life. But has she got what it takes to keep up with other, better-educated girls? And will her hated stepfather ever let her go? Helen is born for the job, her brother is a doctor, her all-powerful mother a hospital trustee. But will Helen's secret misery be her downfall? An aristocratic rebel, Millie's carefree attitude will find her up in front of Matron again and again. Will she ever care enough to make a nurse? Or will she go back to the glamorous life she was born to? What have they let themselves in for?

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About the Author:

DONNA DOUGLAS is a freelance journalist and -- as Donna Hay -- had a number of successful romantic novels published by Orion.

Review:

"A gripping coming-of-age drama about life and love on the wards of a pre-war London hospital." * Weightwatchers Magazine * "A touching novel...reminiscent of Call The Midwife" * Star Magazine * "Excellent characters...absorbing story...I look forward to the next instalment in the lives of these interesting women." * Bookersatz * "Fans of Call the Midwife will enjoy this" * Woman's Own * "With some nice romantic elements and sub-plots that are ripe for development in future, this is a great start to a new series of books and I'm already looking forward to The Nightingale Sisters 4/5" * One More Page Blog *

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