Title: Juliet's nurse
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.
Subjects: Grief, Family secrets, Adaptations, Wet nurses, History, Fiction, Families, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William), Historical fiction, Vendetta, Nannies, Large type books
Places: Verona (Italy), Italy
People: Juliet (Fictitious character), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 1268-1492