A Fresh Start for the Country Nurse is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability.
A Fresh Start for the Country Nurse by Kate Eastham
Genre: Saga / historical
Tour Dates: 7th - 13th March 2025
Publication Date: 7th March 2025
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Standalone First Book in the Diary of a Country Nurse series
Formats available: Netgalley Widget
Types of post available: Review Only
Call the Midwife meets All Creatures Great and Small in this first of a heart-warming series about a country nurse and midwife.
July, 1936
After an unexpected heartbreak and a nasty accident on a busy Liverpool street, Lara Flynn is desperate to start afresh and leave painful memories behind her. She takes on a new job as a district nurse and midwife at a country practice, in the remote Lancashire village of Ingleside.
But instead of the friendly rural idyll she pictures, Lara finds she must cycle vast distances to visit locals who harbour an innate suspicion of a newcomer from the city – as well as dealing with unpredictable livestock, an erratic senior doctor and often challenging medical cases. She also rubs up against handsome local vet, Leo, when she helps to deliver a calf!
With time, Lara learns that healing is a two-way street: just as she helps her patients recover from illness and injury, her new life in Ingleside starts to heal her own wounds. But will this tight-knit farming community ever truly take this city girl to its heart?
An absorbing story of compassion, resilience and the power of community, perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Jean Fullerton.
About Kate Eastham
Kate Eastham trained as a nurse in the late 1970s and enjoyed a long career before a change in circumstance meant that she needed to be a full time carer for her partner. Determined to make the most of this new role ‘working from home’ she cleared a space at the kitchen table for a pile of books and a writing pad and started to make notes on the history of nursing. Inspired by the achievements of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole during the Crimean War she was also captured by the sheer grit and determination of other 'ordinary women' whose voices from the past are seldom heard. An idea for a novel was born and her first book, ‘Miss Nightingale’s Nurses’, was published by Penguin in 2018, closely followed by three more in the series.
Having thought that she would never find anything to replace the work in nursing that she loved, she is now equally immersed in her writing, drawing on years of experience and the stories told by so many patients. With her passion for history, Kate aims to continue making visible the lives of ordinary yet extraordinary women from the past.
She is currently writing for Boldwood Books and the first in her brand new Country Nurse series will be published in March 2025.
Follow Kate Eastham
Twitter: @eastham_kate
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Blog Tour Schedule
Maximum 3 stops per day. Confirmed blogs will appear here.
7th March
karen_loves_reading
Leanne bookstagram
8th March
Jeanette's Thoughts
Bookish Jottings
9th March
@teaandbooks90
10th March
11th March
@Leona.OMahony
12th March
Because I said so -- and other adventures in Parenting
13th March
Books, Life and Everything