A Bride for St Thomas
Angus & Robertson, $16.95 pb
Fiction
A Bride for St Thomas by Cynthia Nolan
by Judy Smallman •
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.
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