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Old friends Monty and Ada worked together on the front line in Belgium: Monty was a nurse; Ada drove ambulances. Now, Bleakly Hall Hydropathic has brought them together again. Monty has arrived to look after the gouty residents taking the Hall's curative waters, via nozzle, douche and jet - and Ada is the maid and driver. For all those at Bleakly, the end of the Great War has brought changes - not all of them good. Monty has a score to settle with Captain Foxley; Ada misses her wartime sense of purpose and the Blackwood brothers must reinvigorate Bleakly for a new era. But with the crumbling, rumbling hydropathic threatening to blow its top, what will become of the folk thrown together in its bilious embrace?
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About the Author:
ELAINE di ROLLO comes from Lancashire and now lives in Scotland. She has a PhD from Edinburgh University in the social history of medicine, and is currently a lecturer at Napier University. The building she works in used to be a hydropathic. This is her second novel. Her first, A Proper Education for Girls (first published as The Peachgrowers' Almanac), which was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book prize, the Scottish Arts Council First Book Award and the Guildford Literary Festival First Book Award, was set in 1857 between England and India.
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Review:
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"I can't remember the last time I read a novel that fizzed with so much energy, or swung so acrobatically between lightly carbonated comedy and pitch-black horrow."
—Scotsman
"In a series of funny, moving set pieces, di Rollo explores the aftermath of the Great War through her cast of bewildered veterans."
—Marie Claire
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—Scotsman
"In a series of funny, moving set pieces, di Rollo explores the aftermath of the Great War through her cast of bewildered veterans."
—Marie Claire
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- PublisherCharnwood
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1444809040
- ISBN 13 9781444809046
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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