The Nightingale Girls - Couverture rigide

Douglas, Donna

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0750536330 ISBN 13 : 9780750536332

Editeur : Magna Large Print Books, 2013

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Quatri�me de couverture :

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 East End 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

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?

MILLIE

An aristocratic rebel, her 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?

THE NIGHTINGALE GIRLS

What have they let themselves in for?

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Three very different girls sign up as student nurses in 1936, while England is still mourning the death of George V. Dora is a tough East Ender, driven by ambition, but also desperate to escape her squalid, overcrowded home and her abusive stepfather. Helen is the quiet one, a mystery to her fellow nurses, avoiding fun, gossip and the limelight. In fact she is in the formidable shadow of her overbearing mother, who dominates every aspect of her life. Can a nursing career free Helen at last? The third of our heroines is naughty, rebellious Millie an aristocrat on the run from her conventional upper class life. She is doomed to clash over and over again with terrifying Sister Hyde and to get into scrape after scrape especially where men are concerned.

This utterly delightful novel brings a London pre-war hospital vividly to life.

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