Paradise Lodge
a novel
by Nina Stibbe
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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--
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Paradise Lodge: Hilarity and Pure Escapism from a True British Wit
2016, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
0241974933 9780241974933
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Paradise Lodge: a novel
2016, Little, Brown and Company
in English
- First United States edition.
0316309311 9780316309318
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Originally published: London : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.
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