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Nightingale Wedding Bells

Donna Douglas
Contents (61)
  1. Donna Douglas
  2. About the Author
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. CHAPTER ONE
  5. CHAPTER TWO
  6. CHAPTER THREE
  7. CHAPTER FOUR
  8. CHAPTER FIVE
  9. CHAPTER SIX
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT
  12. CHAPTER NINE
  13. CHAPTER TEN
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  22. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  43. CHAPTER FORTY
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  53. CHAPTER FIFTY
  54. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  55. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  61. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
Nightingale Wedding Bells

Donna Douglas

NIGHTINGALE WEDDING BELLS

Penguin Books

About the Author

Donna Douglas lives in York with her husband and two cats. They have a grown-up daughter. When she is not busy writing, she is generally reading, watching Netflix or drinking cocktails. Sometimes all at the same time.

Also available by Donna Douglas

The Nightingale Series

The Nightingale Girls

The Nightingale Sisters

The Nightingale Nurses

Nightingales on Call

A Nightingale Christmas Wish

Nightingales at War

Nightingales Under the Mistletoe

A Nightingale Christmas Carol

The Nightingale Christmas Show

A Nightingale Christmas Promise

The Nurses of Steeple Street Series

The Nurses of Steeple Street

District Nurse on Call

To my beautiful grandson, Sebastian

Acknowledgements

Big thanks to Emily Griffin and the amazing team at Arrow for all of your hard work and dedication. Producing a book is much more than putting words on the page. It has to be edited and proof read, a beguiling cover has to be created and enticing copy has to be written, and then last but by no means least someone has to go out there and sell it. It has been great working with you all to create and develop the Nightingale series. I owe so much to you guys.

And let’s not forget my wonderful agent, Caroline Sheldon – who has championed me through thick and thin – and my family, who must at times have wondered whether it would be easier if I just went out and got ‘A Proper Job’.

Finally, a big thank-you to all the readers who have followed the Nightingales’ journey from the first book. What a journey it’s been! I’m so grateful for all of your support and enthusiasm for the series. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the stories as much as I’ve enjoyed telling them. And I hope you will stay with me and enjoy all of the stories that are still to come.

CHAPTER ONE

1917

‘Look out, lads. Here comes the Agony Wagon!’

There was a grin on the young corporal’s face as he called out, but Anna could see the fear in his eyes as he watched her push the dressings trolley down the ward.

All the men dreaded the dressings round. Some would start screaming as soon as they saw the trolley. Others would wait, white-faced and mute with terror, knowing their turn would soon come.

Others, like Corporal Bennett, would crack feeble jokes to hide their nerves.

‘Has it grown back, Nurse?’ he asked, as Anna tentatively peeled the bloody dressing from the raw stump where his left arm had once been.

‘I’m afraid not, Corporal.’ Anna tried her best to smile back at him. Corporal Bennett was one of her favourites on the ward. He had arrived with the latest convoy, sent over from France a few days earlier. He was twenty-seven, two years older than her and the same age as her fiancé Edward.