In at the deep end
Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934.
DORA
Leaves her overcrowded, squalid East End home for a better life. But has she got what it takes to keep up with other, better educated girls? And will her hated stepfather ever let her go?
HELEN
Born for the job, her brother is a doctor, her all-powerful mother a hospital trustee. But will Helen's secret misery be her downfall?
MILLIE
An aristocratic rebel, her carefree attitude will find her up in front of Matron again and again. Will she ever care enough to make a nurse? Or will she go back to the glamorous life she was born to?
THE NIGHTINGALE GIRLS
What have they let themselves in for?
