Workhouse Nightingale

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?

Product details

• Authors: Holly Green, Green Holly
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781785035678
• ISBN: 978-1-78503-567-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Medical, FICTION / Romance / Medical, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Family life fiction, Mixed heritage / mixed race groups or people, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Romance in uniform, Romance: medical