Ergebnis für "The Nightingale" in Saga

London, 1941. Bald ist Weihnachten, und den Schwestern des Nightingale Hospitals steht ein harter Winter bevor. Nach einer verheerenden Bombennacht werden einige von ihnen in ein kleines Dorfkrankenhaus versetzt. So auch Jess, die sich mit dem Umzug aufs Land schwertut. Erst mit der Ankunft ihrer quirligen Freundin Effie scheint sich das Blatt zu wenden. Als dann auch noch ein gut aussehender amerikanischer Soldat im Dorf eintrifft, lässt das die Herzen der Krankenschwestern höher schlagen und mit der ländlichen Ruhe hat es ein Ende.

London, 1935. Für die Schwesternschülerinnen des berühmten Nightingale Hospitals beginnt das zweite Jahr ihrer Ausbildung. Die Lehrschwestern wachen mit strengem Blick über die jungen Frauen, die derweil ganz andere Sorgen beschäftigen: Während die sonst so forsche Dora unter furchtbarem Liebeskummer leidet, wird ihre Freundin Millie von gleich zwei attraktiven Männern umworben. Auch die neue Nachtschwester sorgt für Aufregung, denn Violet scheint nicht die Frau zu sein, für die sie sich ausgibt.

London, 1940. Während der Blitzkrieg über London wütet, setzen die Krankenschwestern des Nightingale Hospitals alles daran, den Krankenhausbetrieb aufrechtzuerhalten. Auch Dora, die inzwischen Mutter von Zwillingen ist, kehrt zurück, um ihre einstigen Kolleginnen bei der kräftezehrenden Arbeit zu unterstützen. Ganz anders als die Hilfsschwestern Jennifer und Cissy, die vor allem zwei Dinge im Sinn haben: schöne Kleider und attraktive Männer. Doch ihre romantischen Träume werden schon bald von dramatischen Ereignissen überschattet.

London, 1937. Die Schwesternschülerinnen Dora und Lucy sind Rivalinnen seit ihrem ersten Jahr am Nightingale Hospital. Als ihre Abschlussprüfung näher rückt, müssen sie feststellen, dass sie eine gemeinsame Sorge verbindet: Beide hüten sie ein Geheimnis, das sie ihre berufliche Zukunft kosten kann. Auch das neue Dienstmädchen Jess sehnt sich nach einem Neubeginn. Sie kommt aus schwierigen Verhältnissen und will ihre Vergangenheit endlich hinter sich lassen. Doch es gibt Menschen, die das mit aller Macht zu verhindern suchen.

London, 1917. Anna ist überglücklich, als ihr geliebter Edward von der Front zurückkehrt. Während die beiden eifrig Hochzeitspläne schmieden, muss ihre Freundin Grace sich gegen ihre Eltern behaupten. Die Pflege verwundeter Soldaten ist nicht das, was diese sich als Zukunft für ihre Tochter wünschen. Dulcie indessen scheint ihr Glück gefunden zu haben, als eine unverhoffte Begegnung sie erkennen lässt: Manchmal begegnet einem die Liebe genau da, wo man sie am wenigstens erwartet.

London, 1938. England bereitet sich auf den Krieg vor, und das berühmte Nightingale Hospital steht kurz vor der Evakuierung. Während Oberschwester Kathleen den jungen Krankenschwestern Mut zuspricht, muss sie selbst um ihre eigene Zukunft fürchten. Auch Schwester Helen sehnt sich nach dem Tod ihres geliebten Charlie nach einer zweiten Chance. Diese scheint gekommen, als ein gutaussehender Fremder ihr Hoffnungen macht. Doch meint er es wirklich ernst mit Helen?

London, 1914. Als drei junge Frauen ihre Ausbildung am Londoner Nightingale Hospital beginnen, geht für jede von ihnen ein Traum in Erfüllung. Doch für ihr persönliches Glück müssen sie Opfer bringen. Während die aus einfachsten Verhältnissen stammende Sadie alles daransetzt, ihre Herkunft zu verbergen, erfährt Sonnenschein Anna zum ersten Mal, was es heißt, nicht dazuzugehören. Und Kate, die wie ihre Brüder Medizin studieren will, muss gegen den erbitterten Widerstand ihres Vaters kämpfen.

A nursing orderly in the WAAF, Ruby Morris is keen to stick with her friends Holly and Meg when they volunteer for the air ambulance, and soon all three are moved to RAF Starsden on the outskirts of London. Nervous not only at flying during wartime but also being responsible for life-or-death decisions, Ruby works hard to overcome her fears, helped by her new friendship with pilot Flight Sergeant Laurie Foster. When it seems like Laurie and Ruby could become more than friends, he starts to blow hot and cold, and she worries her feelings aren't reciprocated.

With her husband, Nick, away fighting, Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself in a difficult position when she is put in charge of a ward of injured German POWs. Can she find it in her heart to care for her enemies? Fellow nurse Kitty faces a similar struggle looking after the men who killed her beloved brother. But her life becomes even more complicated when she falls for one of the prisoners. And Helen Denton returns from nursing in Europe with a secret. She has her own reasons for hating the Germans.

It's 1957, and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale Hospital in London's East End. Winne desperately wants to win her mother's approval - but will following in her footsteps and becoming a nurse help? Tearaway Viv has never been one to follow the rules, though the Nightingale may help her mend her ways. Beth is following her late sister's dream by training as a nurse. Will it be the right path for her? There's a steep learning curve ahead. But with friendship on their side, the Nightingale Daughters are ready to rise to the challenge.

It's the final year of training for three young nurses at The Nightingale Hospital. Helen is at a crossroads in her life as she battles with her domineering mother over both her love life and her future career. Dora can't stop loving Nick, who is married to her best friend, Ruby. Millie is anxious about her fiancé, sent to Spain to cover the Civil War, and things only get worse when she encounters a fortune teller who gives her a sinister warning.

To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital, the ward sisters are heartless and frightening, with impossibly high standards. But the sisters have troubles of their own...Dora, the student nurse is struggling with her heartbreak over Nick, the man who got away. A new arrival on the ward brings the chance to put a smile back on her face. But can she really get over Nick so easily? Dora's fellow student Millie is also torn between the two men in her life.

When her family is struck by a terrible tragedy, Sarah Nightingale is forced to go into service at Grey Friars House as an under-nursery-maid. Although the situation wasn’t of her making Sarah thrives there, but life for her younger brother Alfie is not as easy. Desperate to avoid being sent to the workhouse, Alfie runs away to London to seek his fortune. But young and inexperienced with the dangerous streets of London, Alfie is tricked and sold to work as a slave on a coal barge. Sarah misses her brother terribly but knows she must find a way to survive if she ever wants them to be reunited.

Matron Kathleen Fox has the job of putting the hospital back together but wonders if she is up to the task. In an attempt to bring some festive cheer, she decides to put on a Christmas show. The idea is greeted with mixed feelings by the nurses, who all have their own problems, and also by the new Assistant Matron and ward sister, who find themselves rivals for the role of organiser. But as rehearsals begin, the performers begin to find the show is not just a tonic for the patients.

Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora leaves her overcrowded, squalid working-class 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 is 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? An aristocratic rebel, Millie’s 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?

As the war takes its toll, the Nightingale nurses must do their bit for king and country... Dora is the devoted mother of twin babies, but, determined to help the war effort, she goes back to work at the Nightingale Hospital. More used to nights out in the West End, Jennifer and Cissy volunteer in the hope of tending to handsome soldiers. They soon find out that nursing isn’t quite what they were expecting.

It's Christmas 1941, and the nurses at the Nightingale are facing their toughest winter yet. With shortages everywhere and every news bulletin announcing more losses, the British people are weary and demoralised, and The Nightingale Hospital is suffering too. Millie is recently widowed and dealing with the demands of her family's estate. It's not long before her old world of the Nightingale begins to beckon, along with a long-lost love.... Jess is struggling with her move from East London to the countryside.

Anna is over the moon when her sweetheart returns from the front line. As he recovers from his injuries, they make plans to be married, but the horrors of the trenches cast a long shadow. Caring for shell-shocked soldiers brings untold challenges for Grace, and her parents have very different dreams for her future. Meanwhile Dulcie has her sights firmly set on her own happy ending. And yet sometimes we find love where we least expect to. Each of the nurses has her own battle to fight, but they must rally together if they’re to find true happiness.

The war has ended, and Carrie, Pearl, Ida and Dorothy are determined to make the new hotel at 99 Nightingale Lane a success. When a young kitchen maid finds the corpse of a guest in an unexpected area of the hotel, our girls have more than running their new venture to think about. Suddenly they're thrown into a murder investigation, not the best start for the new hotel, and certainly not what they were expecting when they opened the books to take in guests.

Tearaway Viv’s fragile truce with her grandmother is threatened when her flighty mother suddenly shows up from America and expects to pick up where she left off. It’s what Viv’s always dreamed of - but is she ready for the drama Pauline brings with her? Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her French niece Katrine, while keeping their family relationship a secret from the rest of the Nightingale staff. However, independent Kat is determined to do things her way. But underneath it all, she is lost. She is in a foreign country, still mourning the loss of her mother.