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false <![CDATA[The Wet Nurse's Tale]]> 6006802 2 Bright and clever with a sharp-tongued, adventurous heroine who offers a candid and often funny look at the business of nursing babies in Victorian England, this is a debut novel that will have everyone talking. Susan Rose isn’t the average protagonist: she’s scheming, promiscuous, plump, and she is also smart, funny, tender, and entirely lovable. Like many lower-class women of Victorian England, she was born into a world that offered very few opportunities for the poor and unlovely. But Susan is the kind of plucky heroine who seeks her fortune, and finds it . . . with some help from, well, her breasts. Susan, you see, is a professional wet nurse; she breast-feeds the children of wealthy women who can’t or won’t nurse their own babies. But when her own child is sold by her father and sent to a London lady who had recently lost a baby, Susan manages to convince his new foster mother, Mrs. Norbert, to hire her as a wet nurse. Once reunited with her son, Susan discovers the Norbert home to be a much more sinister place than she’d ever expected. Dark and full of secrets, its master is in India, and the first baby who died there did so under very mysterious circumstances. Susan embarks on a terrifying journey to rescue her son before he meets the same fate. 6181895 6 8 2009 The Wet Nurse's Tale total:186|5:35|4:87|3:57|2:6|1:1| 186 707 782 69 2 0 false false Tue Oct 20 13:39:50 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 13:49:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 09:15:02 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 09:15:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Aug 17 21:05:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 21:05:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 19:08:56 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 23:06:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 16:56:13 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:35:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 14:45:31 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 09:45:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 20:12:11 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 20:20:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 16:11:21 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:14:25 -0700 2009
Erica Eisdorfer has written a lovely novel about the life of a wet nurse in Victorian England. Susan Rose is a bawdy scullery maid who ends up becoming a wet nurse after an unexpected pregnancy. Susan faces many heart-breaking challenges, but face...more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Jul 13 10:20:35 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 10:20:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 16:48:14 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 16:52:09 -0700 2009
In between each chapter, Eisdorfer inserts a two-page clip on a client of a wet nurse (people from all ranges of society employed wet nurses for all different reasons.)

It was fun for me to read a novel on a topic I hadn't thought much of. I lov...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 08:59:30 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 15:13:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 11:45:02 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 14:18:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 07:45:04 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 21:55:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 09:27:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 09:44:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 04:43:03 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 04:12:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 12:58:21 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 18:05:53 -0700 2009 FIRST LINE: "There was snow on the ground when my time came"

Susan Rose is a lower-class maid in Victorian England. When she becomes pregnant by the lord's son, she escapes to London where she finds work as a wet nurse, as her mother had done before her. She moves from j...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 17:12:54 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 13:47:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 14:05:34 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 14:05:58 -0700 2009
I found myself cheering for S...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 15:20:38 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:12:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 10:46:57 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 10:49:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6006802