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Jessie's promise / Rosie Clarke.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
LP CLAR	Large Print		Padstow .	. On Loan .	20 Jun 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781510084940 (pbk.) :
Name	Clarke, Rosie author.
Title	Jessie's promise / Rosie Clarke.
Edition	Large print edition.
Published	Rearsby, Leicester : WF Howes Ltd, 2017.
Published	©2017
Description	364 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Summary	When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job at the end of the First World War, she leaves London to become the nursemaid to the Kendle family. On arrival, she finds the family in disarray. Captain Kendle is a loving father but is traumatised by the war and is kept at arm's length by his frosty wife. Gradually Jessie finds her place in their lives, becoming devoted to Captain Kendle's lively son Jack, his lovely, but quiet daughter Catherine, as well his invalid Mother. Jessie soon starts to love her life at Kendlebury Hall, but problems arise when her feelings for her employer start to change...
Subject	1918-1945
Subjects	Nurses -- Fiction
	Devon (England) -- Fiction
	Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
Genre	Large type books
Genre	Historical fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Devon (England) -- Fiction . Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction . Historical fiction . Large type books . Nurses -- Fiction . Authors: Clarke, Rosie .