Book Review — Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale : by Gillian Gill, Ballantine Books, published by The Random House Publishing Group, 2004. 535 pages: text, illustrations, footnotes and index. I love the little serendipitous events that occasionally happen in life. Nightingales is such an event for me. My local public library does fundraising with used books that have been donated to the library for this purpose. A couple of months ago I made one of my routine visits and happened to see this hardcover book on their shelf for $3.00. I don't believe the original owner of the book had ever read it. Possibly had never opened it. As a retired nurse, I could not leave it on the shelf and it's now been opened, and read. I recently saw the movie Downton Abbey, The Grand Finale . I had watched every PBS episode of each season and loved it. After reading Nightingales, the lives of the Downton Abbey cha...