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Sixty Years a Nurse

By: Mary Hazard
Narrated by: Deirdre O'Connell
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Summary

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in postwar Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest-ever serving NHS nurses.

For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking and life-changing experience. Against a backdrop of ongoing rationing and poverty, she saw for the first time the horrors of disease, the heartbreaking outcomes of failed abortions - and faced the genuine shock of seeing a man naked for the first time!

Sixty Years a Nurse follows the dramas and emotions as Mary found her feet during those early years. From the firm friends she made under the ever-watchful gaze of the matron and the sisters to the eclectic mix of Londoners she strove to care for; the Teddy Boys she danced with and the freedom of living away from home; and her own burgeoning love story, as extraordinary as it was romantic - these are the funny and heartwarming moments that helped Mary to follow her dream.

©2015 Mary Hazard (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Fantastic story!!

Great read, Mary is a real inspiration, and mad as a box of frog's to boot.

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