Secrets for the Three Sisters: The Three Sisters, Book 2

The District Nurse #7

by Annie Groves, Alex Tregear (Narrator)

Winner of the 2025 RNA Romantic Saga Award

The heartwarming new novel from the author of The District Nurses of Victory Walk.

It’s autumn 1940 and the Blitz has cast its shadow over London. Everyone is doing their bit to help, including the three Harrison sisters of the East End’s Victory Walk.
Nurse Rose is snowed under in the hospital tending to victims of the bombings. Her sister Clover is on active duty on the south coast, while the baby of the family, Daisy, is growing up quickly working on the London Underground, now that thousands of people are taking shelter down below.
Even in wartime, the sisters find time for a wedding, but the bride is keeping a secret, which threatens to come to light. Can the three sisters stick together, for each other, and for King and Country?

Audible Audio

Published February 29, 2024

About the author

Penelope Jones Halsall aka: Caroline Courtney, Penny Jordan, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright

Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 in a Preston, Lancashire, England.
She had been a keen reader from the childhood. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction.

She has earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, she found an agent. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her name to Melinda Wright and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her present historical romance novels, she has adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70m of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Now Penny Halsall lived in a house in Nantwich, Cheshire. She worked from home.

Penny died on 31 December 2011.

Reviews

[Carol Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautifully written book… that I loved.
Such an enjoyable read..Concise, comfortable and realistic!
I loved and felt for all the characters!
One of the best World War 2 books I’ve ever read and I’m not even sure who the actual author was.. it’s complicated!!

[Leigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book two, and as always, for the first few chapters, I was completely lost. This is the series to read back to back. Anyway, I eventually caught up mostly. In this book, we see little of Clover, but we get a lot of cousin Hope. Sadly, Snuffles the bunny isn't mentioned much. There is a cute scene with him and Patty having a "chat" in the garden, which was adorable. This book takes place over the end of 1940 into the spring of 1941, ending with what I'm guessing is the huge raid that took place on May 10 of that year. I read a book about that night years ago, and it was one of the worst, if not the worst, raids of the war over Britain. Anyway, Rose, Daisy, and Hope are our main characters. It opens with Faith getting married despite being quite pregnant with another man's baby. The baby a boy comes during a raid and is born under the stairs. Faith is a horrible brat and barely spends time with her son getting others to change his nappies and go to him when he cries. I hope Faith has a Bella (from the Campion series) like redemption and given the ending of the book she might. Hope defies her mother and joins the ambulance service learning first aid, how to drive and how to fix a car. She soon gains confidence in herself and makes friends of her colleagues. Daisy earns the respect of her boss at the tube station as they cope with people filling the station during the nightly raids. Rose has much to cope with. The perverted arrogant doctor seems to have set his eyes on an innocent sheltered new nurse, her boss learns she's expecting leaving Rose some big shoes to fill, and there's another young nurse with a secret of her own. This was a solid entry in the series. This year I have been trying to get back into reading paper books again nothing against audio or ebooks but it's too easy to get caught up in doom scrolling while listening to a book or reading one on your phone. This book did help me shut off my devices and engage me since I wondered what was going to happen to each character. Daisy's story was the weakest of the three but still fairly enjoyable. I hope we see Clover in the next book as I'm curious to see what she's up to in the north and I'd be interested to see what Joy will end up doing. But most of all I need more Snuffles. He's truly the best part of this series so far.

[MRS J P WELSH · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great story covering London families

A true description of life during ww2 bombing raids. How families pulled together how women took over men's roles. Lots of characters with great personalities some kind some unkind. A really enjoyable read

[Marilyn Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story

I enjoyed this book but some details didn't tie up nevertheless I'm hoping that there will be more about these families

[Adam Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant book loved it couldn't put it down

[Ann Crookall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic. Book

Loved this book,so









Loved this book your a every good writer loved all the characters in it is there a book 3 to look forward to. Hope so?

[Andrea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Three sisters who you have to admire for their spirit and determination.

[KateP · Rating 4 out of 5]

In 1940 Rose is a nurse at a London hospital while her sister Daisy works at a tube station helping people who have begun to use the underground for shelter. Meanwhile their cousin Faith has just had a baby and Hope aspires to drive an ambulance. A heartwarming WWII story about women’s lives on the home front.