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Bright and clever with a sharp-tongued, adventurous heroine who offers a candid and often funny look at the business of nursing babies in Victorian England, this is a debut novel that will have everyone talking.Susan Rose isn't the average protagonist: she's scheming, promiscuous, plump, and she is also smart, funny, tender, and entirely lovable. Like many lower-class women of Victorian England, she was born into a world that offered very few opportunities for the poor and unlovely. But Susan is the kind of plucky heroine who seeks her fortune, and finds it . . . with some help from, well, her breasts. Susan, you see, is a professional wet nurse; she breast-feeds the children of wealthy women who can't or won't nurse their own babies.But when her own child is sold by her father and sent to a London lady who had recently lost a baby, Susan manages to convince his new foster mother, Mrs. Norbert, to hire her as a wet nurse. Once reunited with her son, Susan...
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Family secrets, Mothers and sons, Historical Fiction, Wet-nurses, Wet-nurses in fiction, Fiction, Wet nurses, Family secrets in fiction, Wet nurses in fiction, Great Britain in fiction, Mothers and sons in fiction, History, Fiction, historical, London (england), fiction, Mothers and sons, fictionPlaces
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Victoria, 1837-1901Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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The Wet Nurse's Tale
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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