Synopsis
From Book 1:
When middle-aged nurse Dora Stuart-Frazer is assigned to provide end-of-life care to ex-prostitute Magdalena, she suffers a failure of sympathy linked to the woman's former career and her own mid-life marital issues.
Attempting to overcome her prejudices, not only against her patient but other members of the all-female household in which Mags lives, Dora finds herself an initially unwilling listener to the life-story which her patient wishes to recount in the course of her last few weeks of life.
However, as she listens each night to the unfolding story which Mags has to tell, Dora finds herself an increasingly-willing listener as she compares the life of the story-teller to her own and gradually forces herself to confront her own mid-life crisis.
Attempting to overcome her prejudices, not only against her patient but other members of the all-female household in which Mags lives, Dora finds herself an initially unwilling listener to the life-story which her patient wishes to recount in the course of her last few weeks of life.
However, as she listens each night to the unfolding story which Mags has to tell, Dora finds herself an increasingly-willing listener as she compares the life of the story-teller to her own and gradually forces herself to confront her own mid-life crisis.
Publisher: Independent
Content advisory: Some sexual content
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