Donna Douglas

Donna Douglas is the author of the bestselling Nightingale Nurses series (Penguin) which follows the young nurses of the Nightingale Teaching Hospital during the World Wars. A follow up series The Nightingale Daughters was launched in 2023 and the latest book in this new series is Nurses on Call (Penguin September 2024) and moves the story on to 1957.

Under the name D L Douglas, Donna is writing a series of novels featuring Dr Spilsbury, the father of forensic pathology. Starting with  Dr Spilsbury and the Camden Town Killer (Orion 2023). Think Prime Suspect meets Sherlock Holmes!

Donna began writing stories on top of the coal shed when she was a child, but has since graduated to a spare room at her home in York, where she lives with her husband and a cat called Trevor.

Twitter: @donnahay1

Website: donnadouglasauthor.wordpress.com