This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

A great insight into a bygone age with lots of lovely tales of a district nurse on duty and on call.

Beautifully written and a lovely book to get lost in. A little slow to start with but a great follow on and leaves you eager for the next instalment.

Great book. Excellent storyline and brilliant main characters. I would recommend this book.

I read District Nurse on Call back to back with the Nurses of Steeple Street to get the background of the series.

Agnes Sheridan has just completed her training to become a district nurse and she has been sent to the mining village of Bowden. Her job is to help with the sick and injured but with her posh voice and haughty manner the people of the village are suspicious of her and would prefer their own healer Hannah Arkwright to tend to them.. While Agnes is trying to get the village on her side Hannah puts obstacles in her way and does everything she can to stop Agnes from doing her job.

This is a great book, it is set in the 1920’s and it has a good atmospheric feel to it. I loved Agnes who did not give up what she was trying to do. There are some nice characters in this book but also some rather unpleasant ones. Hopefully we will get another instalment soon as there are questions left to be answered. A nice easy read which left me wanting more.

Sunday Times best-selling author Donna Douglas has won a legion of devoted fans with her outstanding series set in The Nightingale Hospital and this talented storyteller is set to win many more with her fabulous new Steeple Street series set in 1920s Yorkshire. In District Nurse On Call, the second title in this series, readers are sure to be hooked from the very first page of this wonderfully written and wholly absorbing saga!

District Nurse Agnes Sheridan is looking forward to making her mark and to show the world what she is capable of. Agnes is sure that she can make a difference to the lives of the inhabitants living in a Yorkshire mining town. However, Agnes’ enthusiasm and goodwill looks set to be thwarted as, on her arrival, she is treated with scorn and suspicion by the people she is meant to be treating. Agnes knows that she has a fight on her hands, but she refuses to be cowed or intimated. She is determined to prove her mettle and to show the villagers the benefits of modern medicine. But Agnes quickly realises that that is going to be easier said than done, but giving up is definitely not an option for Bowden’s first district nurse!

Agnes is not only being given the cold shoulder by the locals who are adamant that they prefer to visit local healer Hannah Arkwright with their ailments and problems rather than trust a medical professional like herself, but she is also accused of being a servant of the wealthy mine owners for whom she must do their bidding! What is Agnes to do? Will she find the courage to continue her work as a District Nurse? Or is she doomed to fail in her quest?

When the General Strikes throws the entire village into chaos, tempers are frayed, loyalties are tested and surviving becomes paramount. As battling hunger and hardship becomes a constant battle, Agnes finds herself forced to choose which side she is really on. But will she make the right choice? Should Agnes listen to her head or heart? Or will she end up making a decision which she will live to regret?

Donna Douglas is on brilliant form once again with District Nurse On Call! Effortlessly bringing the past to vivid and colourful life, Donna Douglas has penned a mesmerizing, captivating and gripping tale of courage, triumphing over adversity, prejudice and survival readers will not be able to resist. Agnes is a terrific heroine who is strong, intelligent and resilient and the rest of the characters in District Nurse On Call are so wonderfully realised that they leap off the pages and will grab readers’ attention from the get-go.

A fascinating, compelling and outstanding read saga fans will not want to miss, District Nurse On Call is another winner by Donna Douglas!

If Agnes thought the residents of Quarry Hill were a challenge then she has no idea what's in store for her when she's completed her training and assigned her own district, the mining village of Bowden. Not only are they not welcoming to an outsider coming into their community but she's arriving at a time of unrest when the miners are fighting for their rights for better working conditions and more pay. Will she be able to win them over to let her support and treat their families or will local 'healer' Heather win out with her lotions and potions...

Once again through her wonderful storytelling, we're drawn into a world that many of us will know little about especially as so many mining communities have now been lost forever. You could feel the pride of the men fighting for what they believe in, and see how their families were suffering as they struggled to exist on next to nothing.

I'm seriously hoping that this is not the last that we hear of Agnes and the Bowden locals especially as when we reach the end someone from her past has just re-entered her life so you're left with that feeling of wanting to know more. My only minor grumble with both books in this series is that I struggled a bit reading the local dialect but on the whole I was able to skip past these bits and continue on with another fantastic read from Donna Douglas.