Nurses on Call

by Donna Douglas

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? Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her French niece Katrine, while keeping their family relationship a secret from the rest of the Nightingale staff. However, independent Kat is determined to do things her way, and break the rules. But underneath it all, she is lost. She is in a foreign country, still mourning the loss of her mother. She is desperate for love, but is she looking in the wrong place? At the same time, Helen is still coming to terms with the end of her marriage to David, a man she still loves. We discover the reason behind their break-up - an illness left Helen unable to have children, and she wanted to give David the chance to be a father. But can love conquer all?

416 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2024

About the author

Welcome to my Goodreads page.

I'm the author of the Nightingale novels, a series of stories set in an East End hospital in the 1930s, published by Arrow.
The first in the series, The Nightingale Girls, follows the lives of three girls from very different backgrounds as they join the Nightingale Hospital as students. The second, The Nightingale Sisters, will be published next spring.
I'm originally from London, but I now live in the beautiful city of York.

Reviews

[Lisa Rackett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved it, I always read Donna Douglas books within a few days. I really hope this isn't the last we see of Millie, Helen and Dora though. It did feel like a passing of the baton to the new generation.

[Mary Elizabeth Morton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another entertaining and excellent book by the wonderful Donna Douglas!🤩😍