Donna Douglas

With her husband, Nick, away fighting, Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning....

Tearaway Viv’s fragile truce with her grandmother is threatened when her flighty mother suddenly shows up from America and expects to pick up where she left off. It’s what Viv’s always dreamed of - but is she ready for the drama Pauline brings with her?

A heartbreaking story of love and forgiveness from Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Douglas. Perfect for fans of Call the Midwife!

It's Christmas 1941, and the nurses at the Nightingale are facing their toughest winter yet....

Anna is over the moon when her sweetheart returns from the front line. As he recovers from his injuries, they make plans to be married, but the horrors of the trenches cast a long shadow....

London, 1914. While young men enlist up and down the country, the Nightingale Hospital has its own set of new recruits....

Hull, 1940. Widowed Edie Copeland has just arrived on Exchange Street, heavily pregnant and with heavy suitcase in tow....

To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital, the ward sisters are heartless and frightening, with impossibly high standards. But the sisters have troubles of their own....

Autumn, 1942. The Blitz has come to an end, but for many families, it's not over yet....

As the war takes its toll, the Nightingale nurses must do their bit for king and country....

It's the final year of training for three young nurses at The Nightingale Hospital....

Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934....

Dora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children's ward for the final three months of their training....

Christmas Eve, 1936. On a foggy December night, a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus and is knocked unconscious....

It's 1957, and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale Hospital in London's East End....

As Christmas 1938 approaches, the staff at the Nightingale Hospital have their own wishes for the festive season....

Matron Kathleen Fox has the job of putting the hospital back together but wonders if she is up to the task. In an attempt to bring some festive cheer, she decides to put on a Christmas show....

Spring, 1941. The families of Jubilee Row are still reeling from the loss of one of their own, and as the Blitz on Hull intensifies, it seems as if there will be more tragedies to come....

West Yorkshire, 1926. When Agnes arrives as the village's first district nurse, she is treated with suspicion, labelled just another servant of the wealthy mine owners....

Welcome to the district nurses' home on Steeple Street, where everyone has a secret....