Lovely Lane

It is 1953 and five very different girls arrive at the nurses' home in Lovely Lane, Liverpool, to start their training at St Angelus Hospital. The world in which they now find themselves is complicated and hierarchical, with rules that must be obeyed and woe betide anyone who strays from them. But when an unknown girl is admitted, after a botched late abortion, a tragedy begins to unfold which will rock the world of St Angelus to its foundations.  Book 1 of series.

St Angelus runs like a family: the workers take care of their own – a lesson the new assistant matron, Miss Van Gilder, is about to learn the hard way. The nurses of Lovely Lane have a secret which is dividing their close knit group and when Nurse Pammy Tanner once again breaks the rules, her actions threaten them all.  Book 2 of series.

Noleen Delaney is one of an army of night cleaners at St Angelus Hospital. Son Finn has done something unheard-of and passed his Eleven Plus exam. How on earth will they pay for his books, his grammar school uniform and shoes? Bronia Ryan has battled depression since her husband died and now one of her sons is in prison. Her youngest, Lorcan, wants no part of a life of crime, but how can he ever escape? Or protect his mother from her vicious eldest son? As usual, St Angelus is at the heart of things. Life and death, love and loss, jealousies, rivalries and betrayals are woven into a rich tapestry in Nadine's great series about poverty, sacrifice and community spirit in post-war Liverpool and the early days of the NHS.  Book 3 of series

Christmas may be the season of goodwill and festive cheer, but not for the poor of 1950s Liverpool. And for St Angelus Hospital in Lovely Lane, it is frantically busy. There are the old, the dying, the children and the emergencies. The nurses, known locally as the Angels of Lovely Lane, are run off their feet. Dana, Beth, Pammy and Victoria hardly have time to catch their breath, let alone have a Christmas of their own.  Book 4 of series.

Christmas is coming, but will the nurses of St Angelus get a chance to enjoy it? Nurse Victoria Baker is heavily pregnant, but as the snow begins to fall, has she made a big mistake about her dates and put the life of her unborn baby at risk? And who is the figure obsessively watching St Angelus from the shadows? Or the mystery woman who turns up one dark evening, begging for a room? In Lovely Lane only one thing is certain. Christmas will be anything but peaceful.  Book 5 of series.