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Donna Douglas

A fascinating journey into the historical world of the Nurses of Nightingale Hospital. Follow their story as together they cope with the demands of war, love and loss, and traumas both in and out of the Hospital.

For the first time, a Nightingale nurses novel set during the First World War. Follow the senior staff as they overcome the trials of their training years. From Sunday Times top ten bestselling author, Donna Douglas. 
 
East London, 1914: Britain is preparing for war. As young men queue up across the country to enlist, the Nightingale Hospital has its own set of new recruits… 
 
Anna has had a happy upbringing in her parent’s bakery in Bethnal Green. But as war descends her family’s German roots will wrench them apart in ways Anna never could have imagined. 
 
Kate dreams of following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a doctor. With female doctors virtually unheard of, it will take courage to face off the prejudice around her. 
 
Sadie joins the Nightingale Hospital for a new life away from her mother’s interference. But the legacy of her family may not be so easy to escape… 
 
As the shadow of war descends, will the promise of Christmas help to bring the students together?

A Nightingale Christmas Promise

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All that Dora Riley wants is her husband home safe for Christmas… 
 
The Nightingale Hospital, London, 1944: With her husband Nick away fighting, Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning and is put in charge of a ward full of German prisoners of war. Can she find it in her heart to care for her enemies? 
 
Fellow nurse Kitty thinks she might be falling for a German soldier, whilst Dora’s old friend Helen returns from Europe with a dark secret. 
 
Can the women overcome their prejudices and the troubles of their past to do their duty for their country?

A Nightingale Christmas Carol

(Nightingales 8)

An exclusive digital Christmas collection from the bestselling author Donna Douglas. Includes A Nightingale Christmas Wish and Nightingales Under the Mistletoe plus two short stories - A Child is Born and Little Girl Lost. 
 
A Child is Born: A Nightingales Christmas Story 
 
Christmas Eve, 1936 
 
On a foggy December night, a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus and is knocked unconscious. 
 
She is rushed to the Nightingale hospital, and a healthy baby is delivered. But the mother claims to have lost her memory, and cannot believe that the child is hers. 
 
It seems that the Nightingale nurses may need to perform a Christmas miracle. 
 
A Nightingale Christmas Wish 
 
It’s Christmas at the Nightingale Hospital … 
 
Sister Blake is revisited by a face from the past. Will buried secrets stop her from being happy? 
 
Lonely Helen Dawson has new responsibilities and trials, but is she looking for love in all the wrong places? 
 
And Matron puts the Nightingale first, even before her own health. With war looming large, will Matron and the Nightingale survive? 
 
With new hardships, new loves and new heartbreak, will anyone get their Christmas wish? 
 
A Little Girl Lost 
 
It’s Christmas time at The Nightingale Hospital and the children on Parry Ward are waiting eagerly for Father Christmas to arrive. 
 
But an unexpected arrival beats him to it and, as one discovery leads to another, the past comes back to confront the present. 
 
But will Staff Nurse Rose Chambers be able to forgive and forget? It is Christmas after all … 
 
Nightingales Under the Mistletoe 
 
Christmas 1941 and the Nightingale nurses are facing their toughest winter yet. 
 
With shortages everywhere, and each news bulletin announcing more defeats and losses, the British people are weary and demoralised 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 would rather be nursing on the front line but finds herself sent to the country. It isn’t long before the East End girl discovers there are battles to be fought on the home front too. 
 
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.

A Nightingale Christmas Collection

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