Donna Douglas is a highly successful author of heartwarming sagas set in wartime Britain. She was born in Wandsworth, a district in south London, where she developed a love for storytelling at a young age. Despite books being a luxury in her family, Douglas found inspiration from watching storytellers on the TV show Jackanory and from the girls' adventure comics her grandmother brought home from her cleaning job at the local newsagents.
Douglas's first novel, "The Nightingale Girls," was an immediate success. The book, which is set in a hospital in 1930s East London, follows the lives of three girls from very different backgrounds as they join the Nightingale Hospital as students. The novel was the beginning of the Nightingale series, which includes ten more novels set in the same hospital. Douglas has since expanded her writing to include the Steeple Street series, which features a district nurse in 1920s Leeds, and the Yorkshire Blitz series, set in wartime Hull, East Yorkshire.
Douglas was raised in South London and started making up stories while perched on top of the backyard coal shed. She creates heartwarming sagas whose settings are in wartime Britain. She is a Sunday Times bestselling writer of Romance and historical fiction author of the Nightingale books. She now lives with her family in York, where she enjoys walking, reading, and watching trashy daytime TV in her spare time.