The second world war is over… Birmingham is welcoming home its menfolk, and a new chapter is beginning in Rachel Booker’s life. Her family is reunited and life settles into a routine – but Rachel yearns for more. Melly, Rachel’s eldest daughter, is a child of the war. She grew up in the bombed-out streets…
Christmas 1941 and the nurses are facing their toughest winter yet With every 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 not long before her old world…
Young Maryann Nelson is devastated by the loss of her beloved father. But more heartache is to come when her mother marries Norman Griffin, the local undertaker, in an attempt to better herself and her family. Though on the surface a caring family man, Norman is not at all what he seems – as Maryann…
All his life, Jack has been crippled by nightmares he does not understand. Jack’s relationship with his girlfriend Molly is being torn apart by the bad dreams that haunt him, drawing him back to a place where it is always midnight. Realising that Jack is being driven close to the edge, Molly urges him to…
Sunderland, 1942 Christmas is fast approaching, and with it comes a flurry of snow and surprises… Against all odds, Polly’s fiancé has finally returned home from the front line. If they can keep things on an even keel, she might get the winter wedding she’s always dreamed of. Meanwhile, shipyard manager Helen is determined to…
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 VIOLET The new night sister is not all that she seems. Who is she and what dark secret is she hiding? As the mystery deepens, Sister Wren is…
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…
In at the deep end 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…
