The New Arrival: Part 2 of 3: The Heartwarming True Story of a 1970s Trainee Nurse

Name: The New Arrival: Part 2 of 3: The Heartwarming True Story of a 1970s Trainee Nurse
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)

Sarah Beeson

Mar 2014 · Sold by Harper Collins

3.8

4 reviews

Ebook

117

Pages

Eligible

About this ebook

The New Arrival can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.

This is PART 2 of 3 (Chapters 10-21 of 30).

You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.

Sarah completes her preliminary nurse training, and finds her feet with staff and patients alike, under the watchful eye of the stern matron.

It’s the end of the swinging sixties, Britain is changing and the everyday life of the nurses and patients plays out against a backdrop of a failing government, strikes, immigration and women’s lib. Nurse Sarah Hill, together with her companions – the serious minded, politicised Maddox, the quick-witted Lynch, who falls in love with an upper-crust young doctor, golden girl Nursery Nurse Appleton, and ex-musical hall star turned midwife Wade – is thrown in straight at the deep end.

Funny, warm and deeply moving, Sarah Beeson’s poignant memoir captures both the heartache and happiness of hospital life and 1970s London through the eyes of a gentle but determined young nurse.

Ratings and reviews

3.8

4 reviews

Mary C Bell

January 18, 2015

Excellent

1 person found this review helpful

Lisa Papps

October 3, 2018

Amazing

About the author

In 1969, 17-year-old Sarah arrived in Hackney in the East End of London to begin her nursing career. Six years later she went into health visiting, practising for over 35 years in Kent and Staffordshire, and building up a lifetime's expertise and stories through working with babies and families. In 1998 Sarah received the Queen’s Institute for Nursing Award and in 2006 was awarded an MBE for Services to Children and Families by Queen Elizabeth II. She later married and became Sarah Beeson. Now she divides her time between Staffordshire and London.

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