Paradise Lodge
Subtitle: a novel
By: Nina Stibbe
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780316309318
Subjects: Social life and customs; Nursing homes; Teenage girls; Fiction
Description: 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--
Notes: Originally published: London : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.