Nadine Dorries Books in Order

Teenage Kitty Doherty is sent from Liverpool’s Four Streets to an Irish convent laundry to conceal her pregnancy by a murdered man. As she endures brutal conditions, neighbours back home juggle poverty, suspicion and a police hunt that threatens to expose every secret.

On Christmas morning 1964, nurse Fionnuala Kennedy trudges through the cold to her shift, determined to finally confess a life-changing secret to her parents that evening. A sudden emergency on the ward, involving familiar faces from the Four Streets, forces her to rethink everything.

In 1950s Liverpool, two girls grow up in a tight-knit Irish Catholic street: one bullied by her cold stepmother, the other carrying a devastating secret about a trusted figure. When the truth edges into view, the whole community faces a brutal reckoning.

In famine-stricken County Mayo in 1846, landlord Owen FitzDeane finds a half-dead girl by the roadside and brings her to Ballyford Castle. Eilinora’s unsettling presence stirs superstition, desire and unease, setting in motion the long shadow that will later touch Ruby Flynn’s world.

In 1947 County Mayo, orphaned Ruby Flynn is rescued from a coastal cottage after a deadly storm and raised by nuns for a life in service. Sent to work as nursery maid for the wealthy FitzDeanes at Ballyford Castle, she’s drawn to the young heir as buried family secrets begin to surface.

On Christmas morning 1963, fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a hostile Irish convent, then watches her baby sent to a wealthy Chicago family. When the child falls gravely ill, events pull Kitty, a new priest and the Four Streets' long-simmering murder case into fresh danger.

Set in 1953, this opening Lovely Lane novel follows Dana, Victoria, Pammy and Beth as they begin nurse training at St Angelus Hospital. Navigating strict rules, rival student Celia and city poverty, they’re tested when a young woman arrives after a botched backstreet abortion.

Christmas at St Angelus Hospital is anything but calm. As Pammy and Beth pour their energy into a children’s ward decorating contest, a dying nurse, an abandoned baby and a domineering mother determined to block her daughter’s career turn the festive season into a test of courage.

In their second year on the wards, the nurses of Lovely Lane face a new threat in Miss Van Gilder, an ambitious assistant matron whose reforms endanger porters, domestics and morale. As tensions rise, they race to uncover her hidden past and protect a gravely ill boy.

Shortly before Christmas in 1950s Liverpool, Tilly starts work as a clerk at St Angelus Hospital, hiding a secret that forces a heartbreaking daily choice. If strict Matron discovers the truth, Tilly risks losing both her job and the future she’s clinging to.

Noleen Delaney cleans St Angelus by night while worrying how to fund grammar school for her bright son. Widowed Bronia Ryan battles depression and a violent eldest boy as her younger son dreams of escape. Around them, the hospital becomes a crossroads for sacrifice, hope and impossible choices.

In the remote village of Tarabeg after the Second World War, ambitious Michael Malone courts two very different women: steady schoolteacher Rosie and vulnerable Sarah, daughter of a brutal fisherman. His choice triggers secrets, grudges and promises that will shape his family for generations.

Seventeen-year-old Mary Kate Malone, furious that her father has remarried after her mother’s death, runs away from Tarabeg to 1960s Liverpool to find her aunt. Within hours she is penniless and alone, just as long-hidden sins at home draw a stranger across the Atlantic.

As snow falls around St Angelus, Sister Emily Haycock anxiously awaits final papers to adopt baby Louis while hiding a risky lie. Heavily pregnant Victoria Baker misjudges her due date, a stranger haunts the hospital, and Christmas turns into the nurses’ most perilous season yet.

Longing to escape her grim life in Liverpool, Mary Kate Malone dreams of returning to Tarabeg, only to find her village transformed by a charismatic American investor. As old lies about her time in England surface, she must decide where – and with whom – her future lies.

Set in the cotton town of Bellfont in the 1800s, A Wicked Woman follows Beatrice Jolly, engaged to wealthy mill heir Sebastian Roscow but secretly doubting her choice. On the eve of her wedding, love at first sight collides with a bitter feud between rival mill families.

In a freezing Liverpool winter, Peggy Nolan is raising seven sons and hiding how desperate things have become. As mischievous Paddy searches for a way to save his mother, Maura and Tommy Doherty are drawn back from Ireland and a corrupt policeman moves into their old Four Streets home.