The second book in the exciting City Hospital series.
City Hospital: One busy hospital, five medical students, plenty of drama ...
Join five young trainee medics on the wards of City Hospital: student doctor Gordy, student nurses Mark and Bella, student radiographer Suzie and student physiotherapist Karlene. The friends share a house, and the ups and downs of being a medical student in a busy teaching hospital.
In City Hospital Book 2: Flames...
A terrible fire destroys lives, but was it an accident? Karlene is determined to get to the truth.
Gordy meets an old flame who won't take no for an answer.
A young man makes a drastic, and violent, decision, and Bella struggles to understand why.
Keith Miles (born 1940) is an English author, who writes under his own name and also historical fiction and mystery novels under the pseudonym Edward Marston. He is known for his mysteries set in the world of Elizabethan theater. He has also written a series of novels based on events in the Domesday Book.
The protagonist of the theater series is Nicholas Bracewell, the bookholder of a leading Elizabethan theater company (in an alternate non-Shakespearean universe).
The latter series' two protagonists are the Norman soldier Ralph Delchard and the former novitiate turned lawyer Gervase Bret, who is half Norman and half Saxon.
His latest series of novels are based in early Victorian period and revolve around the fictional railway detective Inspector Robert Colbeck.
As a big fan of medical dramas like casualty, this book series is exciting, as soon as start reading it am drawn into the book and I love reading about the characters. If your a fan of casualty you'll love this book and the others in the series.
Suzie, Karlene, Bella, Mark and Gordy are sharing a house. They are all medical students at the City Hospital. Mark and Bella are nurses in training and their next assignment is the psychiatric ward. Bella might be fierce and snappish in her personal life, but she deeply cares for her patients. Gordy is having problems with an old flame. Suzie is struggling with her weight. There's been a fire and Karlene knows the victims. Her friend Janie lost her father and her brother has been badly burned. Karlene wants to find out what happened the night the house went up in flames and she's doing everything she can to help her friend. Each of the five students has a lot to deal with, but fortunately they have each other to lean on.
I liked this book very much. Flames is the second story in the City Hospital series. The reader learns more about the five medical students who are the main characters. There's always something happening and the busy hospital life is really interesting. Gordy is a pretty boy with a bit too much self confidence. He and Bella are always getting in each other's hair. Karlene is wise and determined. She's usually calm and she's a great listener. Suzie is a sweet girl who is terribly insecure. She could really use a good friend. Fortunately Mark is there to help. He's driven and wants to be the best nurse there is. I like all of them and it's great to read about their quarrels and small issues as well as the main topics of the novel. The writing is vivid and it felt like I was watching the whole thing in my head. I loved that and couldn't stop reading. I can't wait to find out what happens in the next book!
Worst, trashiest series EVER! Oh my. How did my high school - a posh, private girls' school - have these in the library?! Now I always liked shows such as A Country Practice and then All Saints, so on one level I was interested in these books... but my, they were bad.