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Nightingale Family
Nightingale Family
Series · 3 books · 2024
By
Fenella Miller
Books in series
#1
A Pocketful of Pennies
2024
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1840s Colchester \
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A tragic loss, a new path?
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. But just as she is becoming established in the household her past returns to shatter her happy life and ruin the chances of her ever finding Alfie again.
Please This book was previously published as For Want of a Penny.
Praise for Fenella J.
'Engaging characters and setting which whisks you back to the home front of wartime Britain. A great start to what promises to be a fabulous series.' Jean Fullerton 'Yet again, Fenella Miller has thrilled me with another of her historical stories. She brings alive a variety of emotions and weaves in facts relating to the era, all of which keep me reading into the small hours.' Glynis Peters 'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane
#2
A Capful of Courage
2024
Pre-order the emotional next book in the Victorian saga series from Fenella J Miller
Dangerous times, new fortunes
London October 1843.
Sarah Nightingale is a strong young woman who keeps her head high and faces every new adversity with courage. So when Daniel Cooper, a happily married man with three children, offers her a position taking care of his children and poorly wife, she jumps at the chance. Perhaps life is finally looking up for Sarah? Meanwhile, Sarah’s brother Alfie is also prospering in London after escaping his life of servitude. But when a personal tragedy strikes, Alfie decides to leave London and go home to look for his sister. But with her fortunes changing, will Sarah welcome her runaway brother?
Please This book was originally published as Count Your Blessings.
Praise for Fenella J.
'Engaging characters and setting which whisks you back to the home front of wartime Britain. A great start to what promises to be a fabulous series.' Jean Fullerton 'Yet again, Fenella Miller has thrilled me with another of her historical stories. She brings alive a variety of emotions and weaves in facts relating to the era, all of which keep me reading into the small hours.' Glynis Peters 'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane
#3
A Basket Full of Babies
2024
Preorder the next instalment in the emotional Nightingale Family series from Fenella J Miller
A new family, an old fear...
After the death of his wife, Sarah Nightingale marries Dan Cooper and becomes mother to his three little boys. They move to a fine house of their own and Sarah has never been happier with a family to finally call her own with maybe a baby of her own on the way… When Alfie Nightingale has a dalliance with a young girl called Betty, he’s obliged to do the right thing by her when she learns she's with child. Now there will be another baby in the family. But when one disaster follows another, Sarah and Alfie have dreadful choices to make if they and their families are to survive.
Please This book was originally published as Better Bend Than Break.
Praise for Fenella J.
'Yet again, Fenella Miller has thrilled me with another of her historical stories. She brings alive a variety of emotions and weaves in facts relating to the era, all of which keep me reading into the small hours.'
Glynis Peters
'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.'
Lizzie Lane
'Engaging characters and setting which whisks you back to the home front of wartime Britain. A fabulous series!'
Jean Fullerton
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Fenella Miller
Author · 84 books