- Title:
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Not Your Average Nurse: From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary Career (MP3)
- Written by:
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Maggie Groff
- Read by:
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Catherine Milte
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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11 hours 21 minutes
- MP3 size:
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492 MB
- Published:
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May 18 2017
- Available Date:
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May 18 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489392626
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; British; Historical
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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Price
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Award-winning novelist Maggie Groff shares stories of her richly varied, and at times unusual, former nursing career.
'Over time, I nursed victims of war, the posh, the poor, the famous and the infamous ... Oh, the stories I can tell!'
To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it's never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks as a student nurse at London's King's College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. It's sink or swim.
In a delightful romp through time, played out against the march of feminism and the fashion, music and movies of almost half a century ago, we follow Maggie's highs and lows as with trial and much error she becomes a highly skilled nurse and sets sail for a new life in Australia.
From the watchful gaze of stern ward sisters and the ordeals of nursing at a poor housing estate to becoming an industrial nurse at the iconic Sydney Opera House, Maggie shares her stories of mistakes and mayhem, tea and sympathy, and the life-affirming moments that make it all worthwhile.