First United States edition.

274 pages ; 22 cm

Originally published: London : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.

Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job as an "auxiliary nurse" at Paradise Lodge, a home for the elderly, and learns that her job entails helping the patients (frequently) to the bathroom. What begins as a way to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly becomes the education of a lifetime as Lizzy wades through the day-to-day humdrum and drama of this ramshackle refuge for the elderly. And when a rival nursing home threatens, Lizzie discovers that the staff and residents of Paradise Lodge have become her surrogate family, and the only place she's ever felt she belongs-- Adapted from publisher website.

Teenage girls -- Fiction.

Nursing homes -- Fiction.

England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

1900-1999

Manners and customs.

Nursing homes.

Teenage girls.

England.

Reproduction of (manifestation): Stibbe, Nina. Paradise Lodge London : Viking, 2016 9780241240243

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