London 1959. Dem Konvent stehen grose Veranderungen bevor: Das Nonnatus-Haus muss geraumt werden und die komplette Belegschaft muss an einen neuen Standort ubersiedeln. Der Umzug fordert Jennys ganze Energie und auch Schwester Winifred kann nur wenig helfen. Der plotzliche Ausbruch der Kinderlahmung erfordert viel Einfuhlungsvermogen von den Schwestern und stellt sie vor neue Herausforderungen.
Über den Autor Jennifer Worth
Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and was later ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, then the Marie Curie Hospital, also in London. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to study music intensively, teaching piano and singing for about twenty-five years. Jennifer died in May 2011 after a short illness, leaving her husband Philip, two daughters and three grandchildren. Her books have all been bestsellers.