The angels of Lovely Lane

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As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express .
It is 1953 and five very different girls are arriving at the nurses' home in Lovely Lane , Liverpool, to start their training at St Angelus Hospital.

Dana has escaped from her family farm on the west coast of Ireland. Victoria is running away from a debt-ridden aristocratic background. Beth is an army brat and throws her lot in with bitchy Celia Forsyth. And Pammy has come from quite the wrong side of the tracks in Liverpool.

The world in which they now find themselves is complicated and hierarchical, with rules that must be obeyed. Everyone has their place at St Angelus and woe betide anyone who strays from it .

But when an unknown girl is admitted, after a botched late abortion in a backstreet kitchen, a tragedy begins to unfold which will rock the world of St Angelus to its foundations.

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Library Journal Review

The setting is the St. Angelus Hospital, Liverpool, England; the date is 1953; and the plot centers on three young nursing students. Pammy grew up on the docks in a warm, loving family. Dana came from an Irish farm where the future she faced was of drudgery and an abusive husband. Victoria is the sole child of a bankrupt aristocrat. Malevolence, in the form of fellow student Celia, will bring certain trouble for these kindly, hardworking girls, as they learn the difficult coursework and cope with the hospital staff, who run the gamut from supportive to surly and from charming to predatory. The girls' stories are told from multiple points of view and with each shift, the author slows the plot with backstory, and it continues throughout. Georgia Maguire is the best reason to listen to this book. Her attractive voice, range of accents, and excellent pacing make the most of the lackluster novel. She portrays the high emotions of the stressful hospital wards as well as the quieter longings of the more mature characters. Verdict Alas, even the excellent narration cannot move this reviewer to recommend this title.-Juleigh Muirhead Clark, Williamsburg, VA © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.