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A Nursing Life
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ISBN10: 1913144003
ISBN13: 9781913144005
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Apr 11 2019
Pages: 610
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.23 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781913144005
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Apr 11 2019
Pages: 610
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.23 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Spanning no less than five generations, this is the story of a Midleton-born nurse who rises to the top of her profession in the 1960s before marriage to a carpet salesman in Clery's sees her having to leave her job and become a fulltime mother. Tragedy mixes with comedy as tales of marital breakdown and a bullying matron mix with nights on the town and days on ever-changing wards as the health service goes through various transitions and she does her best to acclimatise herself to them. Allied with her attempts to juggle her career with the demands of a challenging home life resides a bittersweet tale of love and loss as the winsome world of her parents gives way to a harsher one where family values are threatened by the addiction problems of her husband and daughter. Behind it all is her unmarried aunt who hides a heartbreaking secret that flies in the face of the morals of the time.
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