Juliet's nurse
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lois Leveen
Contributors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Edition: First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781476757445
Subjects: Grief; Family secrets; Adaptations; Wet nurses; History; Fiction
Description: A "new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the Cappelletti's darkest secrets. Those secrets--and the nurse's deep personal grief--erupt across five momentous days of love and loss that destroy a daughter, and a family"--Amazon.com.