From the door-slamming Miss Cromwell to Mrs Silver's shoplifting and Mrs May coming over all queer, being Matron in charge of the Lodge was rarely straightforward.
Evelyn Prentis Boeken
Evelyn Prentis was een verhalenvertelster die putte uit haar ervaringen als verpleegster. Haar proza wordt gekenmerkt door scherpe observaties van de menselijke natuur, vaak doorspekt met subtiele humor. Prentis legde de complexiteit van het dagelijks leven vast en onderzocht de veerkracht en het medeleven van haar personages. Haar werken getuigen van haar opmerkelijke leven en haar passie voor verhalen vertellen.
A Nurse in Action
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Not only did the nurses have to cope with stray bombs and influxes of patients from as far away Dunkirk, but there were also RAF men stationed nearby - which caused considerable entertainment and disappointment, and a good number of marriages ...
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.
A Nurse in Time
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'It must be stressed from the start that I was not a born nurse. They have a little something the others haven't got which never seems to desert them however desperate the circumstances may become'Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her life as a nurse.
She soon went off the idea when it started to get cold.'After working as a nurse for thirty years, Evelyn left the hospital to become a full-time Matron at The Lodge - a home for elderly ladies of reduced circumstances.