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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
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Women's Fiction Historical
Susan Rose is promiscuous, loveable, plump, and
scheming—especially 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 fortune—for 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 she’s 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 fails—but Susan Rose has no shortage of
gumption. Bright, clever, and with a crackling wit all her
own, Susan is an irresistible heroine. THE WET NURSE’S TALE, is a rich, rollicking portrait of
love, life, and motherhood in Victorian England—where things
are much less buttoned-up than they seem.
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