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A NURSING LIFE Aubrey Malone
Paperback A5 608pp -
ISBN
978-1-913144-00-5
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. Her
relationship to her parents, her grandparents, her siblings, her
children and her friends are documented in an event-filled saga
that's as much a history of the time as of its characters.
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.
Aubrey Malone's previous books include Maureen O'Hara: A Biography (University Press of Kentucky), Women on Women (Pan Macmillan) and Ballina Stories and Poems (Penniless Press). For special discounted offer contact: buik74ordur@hotmail.com
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