Nurse Brookes — Kate Norway

Helen Brookes had left Byng's Hospital to get married ... and came back again, her engagement broken. She had made one distressing, almost disastrous mistake; now she would be more careful, she told herself, more clear-headed about her own emotions. All of which did not prevent her from falling in love with a surgeon who, it seemed, was not free to marry. Kate Norway's own long experience as a nurse gives a gripping authenticity to this story of life in a big hospital, with its ceaseless work, its steady routine, its anxieties, defeats and heartening triumphs.