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A Nurse and Mother
A Nurse and Mother
paperback
Published:
5 January, 2012
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Description
'Matron smiled. It was the smile that one woman gives to another and not the chilly facial movement from Matrons of old. "Do you think you would be able to work 9 to 3.30?" For a moment I couldn't think at all. There seemed something not quite right in being paid for so little labour.'
At the end of the Second World War, as husbands came back to Civvy Street their wives had the luxury of staying at home with the children. For a short while at least. Soon Evelyn realised she had to find part-time work to make ends meet, and to her astonishment she was offered part-time hours at her old hospital.
The day-to-day job hadn't changed much, but she was now a nurse and mother. Whooping cough and measles could still kill a small child, and the early '50s polio epidemic left the whole country in shock.
But the nurses worked hard, moaned incessantly about their aching feet and yet found things to laugh at, just as they did from the start of their training. If old soldiers never die, then neither do nurses.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780091941383 |
| ISBN10 | 0091941385 |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 219 g |
| Product Dimensions | 126 x 198 x 20 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Ebury Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Perceptive, warm and very funny * Sunday Telegraph *
Highly amusing and entertaining * Derby Evening Telegraph *
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Author's Bio
Brought up in Lincolnshire, Evelyn Prentis (real name Evelyn Taws) left home at eighteen to become a nurse. She later moved to London during the war, where she married and raised her family. Like so many other nurses, she went back to hospital and used any spare time she might have had bringing up her children and running her home. Born in 1915, she sadly died in 2001 at the age of eighty-five.