The Nurse's Secret

by Amanda Skenandore

Readers will love this story's many layers and intriguing characters. Una, lacking in social skills and education, was clever, determined, and a seasoned pick-pocket. And, when accused of murder, she finds a unique way to hide from the police. It's an atmospheric and entertaining book. The author does an excellent job of transporting you to the 1880s and the slums of New York. She also gives us some fantastic insight into the beginning of the first nursing school.The Nurse's Secret by Amanda Skenandore #historicalfiction, #reading, #BooksToRead, #reading, #books,#booksforwomen,#nursing,#bookreview, #thenursesSecret, #amandaskenandore

Book Summary

Based on Florence Nightingale's nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ignorant and unskilled, Bellevue prizes discipline, intellect, and moral character, and only young women of good breeding need apply. At first, Una balks at her prim classmates and the doctors' endless commands. Yet life on the streets has prepared her for the horrors of injury and disease found on the wards, and she slowly gains friendship and self-respect.

Just as she finds her footing, Una's suspicions about a patient's death put her at risk of exposure, and will force her to choose between her instinct for self-preservation, and exposing her identity in order to save others.

Amanda Skenandore brings her medical expertise to a page-turning story that explores the evolution of modern nursing-including the grisly realities of nineteenth-century medicine-as seen through the eyes of an intriguing and dynamic heroine.

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