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One of the Washington Post's Best Books of the Year
Berkley
August 2010
On Sale: August 3, 2010
Featuring: Susan Rose
320 pages
ISBN: 0425234479
EAN: 9780425234471
Paperback
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Women's Fiction Historical
Susan Rose is promiscuous, loveable, plump, and schemingβespecially when it comes to escaping life as a kitchen drudge in Victorian England. Luckily for Susan, her big heart is coverd by an equally big bosom, and her bosom is her fortuneβfor Susan becomes a professional wet nurse, like her mother before her. But while scullery maids and cooks live below stairs, a wet nurse lives upstairs, and if sheβs like Susan, she makes it her business to know all the intrigues and scandals that the upper-crust would prefer to keep to themselves. When her own child is caught up in a family scandal, Susan must use her plentiful street-smarts to rescue her baby from the powerful mistress of the house. The scheme she weaves is bold, daring, and could spell ruin for her if she failsβbut Susan Rose has no shortage of gumption. Bright, clever, and with a crackling wit all her own, Susan is an irresistible heroine. THE WET NURSEβS TALE, is a rich, rollicking portrait of love, life, and motherhood in Victorian Englandβwhere things are much less buttoned-up than they seem.
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