Miss Nightingale's Nurses
Author: Kate Eastham
Category: Other2
Published: 2018
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Read Online'Deftly written . . . a moving account of loss, as well as self-discovery and achievement' Woman's OwnThe first heart-warming novel in Kate Eastham's nursing series . . . _________From the docks of Liverpool to a distant battlefield, can one girl find her brother and save herself? Ada Houston's life is shattered when her brother Frank goes missing following an accident at the docks. But a short time later she hears a rumour that he survived and left Liverpool to fight a foreign war. Determined not to lose him a second time she boards a ship to bring him home. But the battlefields of the Crimea are a hostile place for a penniless young woman. Then one day a lifeline is thrown her way as she is offered the chance to train as a nurse under the famous Florence Nightingale. Working in the most terrible of conditions, Ada shows an aptitude beyond anyone's expectations as she cares for her injured...