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  • It Won't Hurt a Bit

    Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    When Jane Yeadon decided that she wanted to become a nurse, the Swinging Sixties had arrived in style. But before her training the nearest she got to anything swinging was the udder of the cow on their farm in the north-east of Scotland. It was time to leave for the bright lights and some modern life. It Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of Jane's journey from the farm she loved and the schoolwork she ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • It Shouldn't Happen to a Midwife!

    More nursing tales from the swinging sixties

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    Training to be a nurse in the Swinging Sixties was demanding but great fun. In this sequel to "It Won't Hurt a Bit", it's time for Jane Yeadon to move on from her basic training to her exciting new life as a midwife. It's a whole new challenge with a new set of intriguing colleagues far from home as she heads from Scotland to Belfast for a brand new adventure. When she arrives at the Royal ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Telling Tales

    Growing Up on a Highland Farm

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    Telling Tales is a nostalgic and beautifully written account of growing up on a small family farm which vividly evokes a way of life that, although so recent, is now all but forgotten. For Jane Yeadon, growing up on a farm in the north of Scotland in the 1950s was at times idyllic - but it could also be incredibly challenging. And when her father died in a tragic motorbike accident, it had a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Call Me Sister

    District Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    Who'd have thought a missing bacon rasher and a teaspoon would play a part in advancing someone's career? It's the late '60s and Jane Yeadon has always wanted to be a district nurse. Staff nursing in a ward where she's challenged by an inventorydriven ward sister, she reckons it's time to swap such trivialities for life as a district nurse. Independent thinking is one thing, but Jane's about to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • A Child is Born: A Nightingales Christmas Story

    by Donna Douglas ...
    Series series Nightingales
    A Christmas short story, available only in ebook, from the author of The Nightingale Girls, The Nightingale Sisters and The Nightingale NursesChristmas Eve, 1936On a foggy December night, a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus and is knocked unconscious.She is rushed to the Nightingale hospital, and a healthy baby is delivered. But the mother claims to have lost her memory, and ... Read more

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  • Christmas With Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 3 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    A wonderfully moving Christmas midwife story from the author of Call Nurse Millie.Christmas is approaching - but for Nurse Millie and Nurse Annie babies are still being born, and in the East End of London, new mothers still need all the care and support they can give.Vividly summing up all the friendship of a close-knit community - both for the midwives and for the families - CHRISTMAS WITH NURSE ... Read more

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  • The Nightingale Nurses

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    by Donna Douglas ...
    Series Book 3 - Nightingales
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  • Call Nurse Millie

    by Jean Fullerton ...
    Series Book 1 - Nurse Millie and Connie
    'A delightful, well researched story that really does depict nursing and the living conditions in the East End at the end of the war' Lesley PearseLondon is putting itself back together and twenty-five-year-old Millie is at the forefront of the effort as she tends to the East End community around her.While she witnesses tragedy and brutality in her job, Millie also finds strength and kindness as ... Read more

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  • Where the Heart Lies

    by Ellie Dean ...
    Series Book 4 - The Cliffehaven Series
    February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London's East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destroys her family and the house she grew up in. All she has left is her motherless baby nephew William.Determined to uphold her promise to her sister to keep William safe until his father, Bill, returns from the war, she accepts a post as a midwife in Cliffehaven on the south-coast of England. Here they ... Read more

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  • The Sugar Girls - Lilian’s Story

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    by Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    This is Lilian’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘When Lilian Tull came to Tate & Lyle shortly after ... Read more

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  • Sisters

    Heroic true-life stories from the nurses of World War Two

    by Barbara Mortimer ...
    On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany.Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses.Sisters features over 150 previously unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. The vivid, poignant and riveting stories ... Read more

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