Workhouse Nightingale

✍ Scribed by Holly Green

• Book ID: 100602486
• Publisher: Ebury Digital
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 216 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1785035665

✦ Synopsis

Can this orphan ever fulfil her nursing dreams...?

After her mother's death, Dora is sent to live with her father and his other family. But the fact that Dora is mixed race and illegitimate see her treated as little more than a servant by her step-mother and half siblings. This doesn't stop the son of the house abusing his position and Dora finds herself on the streets and pregnant...

Sent to the local workhouse, Dora's future looks bleak but she still dreams of a better life where she can help others as her late mother did with her herbal remedies. But can a girl from a workhouse ever achieve anything, let alone become one of Florence Nightingale's nurses?

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About the Author

Holly Green writes historical sagas about love and war, and her books are inspired by the stories she heard from her parents when she was a child. Her father was a professional singer with a fine baritone voice and her mother was a dancer, but they had to give up their professions at the outbreak of World War II. Holly is from Liverpool and is a trained actress and teacher.