Working in the worst possible conditions, Ada shows quite the aptitude beyond anybody’s expectations while caring for injured countrymen, making new friends, and even enjoying the first flutter of romance. Then one day a lifeline gets tossed her way as she’s offered the opportunity to train as a nurse under the famous Florence Nightingale. However the battlefields of the Crimea are a hostile place for this penniless young woman. However a short time later she hears this rumor that he actually survived and left Liverpool in order to fight a foreign war.Īda, determined not to lose him again, boards this ship to bring him back home. From the docks of Liverpool to some distant battlefield, can a girl find her brother and save herself?Īda Houston’s life is shattered when Frank, her brother, disappears after an accident at the docks. “Miss Nightingale’s Nurses” is the first novel in the “Nursing” series and was released in 2018. She was inspired to start writing after she researched the history of nursing and her own family history with its roots in Liverpool, northern mill towns and rural Lancashire.

Kate, always reading, went on to gain an English Literature degree. She has more than thirty years of experience working in residential, hospital, and hospice care.īorn and raised in Lancashire, she’s married with three grown up children and a grandchild. Author Kate Eastham trained as a midwife and nurse on the Nightingale wards of Preston Royal Infirmary.

The Sea Nurses by Kate Eastham