Mayfair Rebel

From West End lady to East End girl: a gritty saga perfect for fans of Call the Midwife and The Nightingale GirlsMiss May Winton, heiress to the Frears' shipyard fortune, has been rocked in the cradle of upper-class comfort for the past twenty-two years. But now she is set to begin a placement as a trainee nurse in St Katherine's, the largest voluntary hospital in the East End of London. An abrupt – but not unwelcome – education awaits her. Daredevil May has long been bored and frustrated with the pointless rituals of her privileged life. Nursing, she believes, will provide an honourable escape, and freedom to meet people from all walks of life. It is at St Katherine's in Poplar that she becomes bosom friends with a socialist station-master's daughter, Ellen Carter and staunch suffragette Ada Farrar. Together May and Ellen explore their new surroundings in the East End, with cockney drama at full cry on every street. As May becomes closer to the...