| Description: |
274 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note: |
Originally published: London : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016. |
| Summary: |
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job as an "auxiliary nurse" at Paradise Lodge, a home for the elderly, and learns that her job entails helping the patients (frequently) to the bathroom. What begins as a way to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly becomes the education of a lifetime as Lizzy wades through the day-to-day humdrum and drama of this ramshackle refuge for the elderly. And when a rival nursing home threatens, Lizzie discovers that the staff and residents of Paradise Lodge have become her surrogate family, and the only place she's ever felt she belongs-- Adapted from publisher website. |
| Subject: |
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Nursing homes -- Fiction.
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England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Timeframe: |
1900-1999 |
| Genre: |
Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780316309318 |
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0316309311 |
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