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Not Your Average Nurse

From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary Career

by Maggie Groff

Narrator Catherine Milte

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Length 11 hours 20 minutes

Language English

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'Over time, I nursed victims of war, the posh, the poor, the famous and the infamous ... Oh, the stories I can tell!'

To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it's never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks as a student nurse at London's King's College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. It's sink or swim.

In a delightful romp through time, played out against the march of feminism and the fashion, music and movies of almost half a century ago, we follow Maggie's highs and lows as with trial and much error she becomes a highly skilled nurse and sets sail for a new life in Australia.

From the watchful gaze of stern ward sisters and the ordeals of nursing at a poor housing estate to becoming an industrial nurse at the iconic Sydney Opera House, Maggie shares her stories of mistakes and mayhem, tea and sympathy, and the life-affirming moments that make it all worthwhile.

Biography & Memoir Children's Art Nonfiction

Maggie Groff is the bestselling author of two non-fiction books, Mothers Behaving Badly: How to do the most important job in the world the easy way (1999) and Hoax Cuisine: Faking it in the kitchen (2001). She wrote a weekly column also titled Hoax Cuisine, for two years from 2002-2004 for Sunday Life Magazine which was distributed through The Sun-Herald Sunday and The Sunday Age. This is her first novel.

Catherine Milte has worked both on stage and in television, where her credits include Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Halifax FP and The Fast Lane. She is also familiar to listeners of ABC Radio National's The Book Reading and Poetica and is a recipient of the TDK Australian Audio Book Award for Narrator of the Year.