Title: The Nightingale Girls (Book 1)
Author: Donna Douglas
Author: Donna Douglas
Publication Information: Arrow, 2012, available in paperback or digital edition
Genre: Historical
Fiction/Nursing
Plot: Three very different young women attend
nursing school at Florence Nightingale Hospital in London’s East End in 1934
and become friends. Dora Doyle is an inarticulate
young woman from the slums whose enthusiasm and work ethic impresses the new
matron sufficiently to gain her a place in the training class.
