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Mary Bates, a young Australian living in London in the 1930s, is advised by Dr Gerald Somerset where to do her nursing training: ‘The London for hard work. St Mary’s for sport. Guy’s for flirts … and St Thomas’s for ladies,’ he says. Mary thinks Gerald would be as cold in bed as a dozen frozen eggs, but nevertheless she takes his advice and applies to St Thomas’s Hospital.
- Book 1 Title: A Bride for St Thomas
- Book 1 Biblio: Angus & Robertson, $16.95 pb
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This semi-autobiographical novel is not strong on plot or character. It is essentially an account of Mary’s training as a Nightingale nurse, buckling down to hard work and baulking at excessively rigid hospital procedures and protocol. When Mary does manage to get out and about with various beaux, she makes some sharp observations about London society.
A Bride for St Thomas was first published in 1970, six years before Cynthia Nolan’s death. A & R has also republished Outback and Beyond, a compilation of four books in which Cynthia Nolan describes her travels with husband Sidney Nolan.
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