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The Nightingales of Boston

Historical

The Nightingales of Boston

A Novel

by Gemma Tizzard

Publisher
Gallery Books
Published
November 2026
Length
352 pages
ISBN
9781668056974

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Three women's lives collide after the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston on Thanksgiving weekend 1942. Alice is out with her fiancé George before he leaves for the war; Inez, a Boston Globe secretary who wants to be a reporter, is chasing a story at the club; Nina, head nurse at Boston City Hospital, is halfway through a holiday shift when the first burn victims arrive. A novel of survival, friendship and healing, published in the UK by Headline Review as Three Nightingales.