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The Pledge

The Pledge


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It is the 1950s. Tina, Hine and Sally are three young women who meet for the first time at the Preliminary Training School of a large English Midland Hospital Group. After a rocky start the girls with very different backgrounds, pledge a lasting friendship. Tina comes from a sheltered life in a middle-class family in Stratford-on-Avon: Hine is half Maori and had an illegitimate child in New Zealand, but this is not known to the others for some time. Sally was born with a silver spoon in her mouth but after an escapade in Switzerland, is packed off to train to be a nurse, much to her disgust.The story follows the nursing experiences of the young women as they pass their Preliminary Examinations and find themselves facing the real challenges of their training and the development of relationships with the opposite sex. Sally marries the charming surgeon Peter Phillips, while Tina and Hine travel out by ship to New Zealand to try to find her young son Tane. Aboard ship they meet the ship's doctor, Jim Wainright who has resorted to alcohol to forget a sad past. Hine's developing love for Jim is a lifeline, and they seek for Tane together once they reach New Zealand.Left alone, Tina has her own adventures when she meets the charismatic Scotsman, David Robb. All does not run smoothly for the feisty couple, and it takes dramatic circumstances in New Zealand, England and Scotland to resolve their differences.
About the Author: Chris Davies Curtis was born in Yorkshire England, and spent her school years in Stratford-upon-Avon with her parents and elder brother David. She then trained to be a registered nurse, meeting her future husband on a pony trekking holiday. Four years after marrying Londoner, Ken they moved to the British Channel Isle of Sark. After about seven years of running a guest house and smallholding they decided to explore New Zealand in a Bedford van for two years, taking young son Roy with them. Various jobs paid the way, and they returned to Sark to lease their property and immigrate back to New Zealand. Here Chris became a rural District Nurse. Sadly the marriage ended and Chris returned to Sark, where she lived with a partner for 17 years, until he died of a brain tumour. She now lives north of Auckland, near her son and family. Writing has always been a hobby (her father was a short story writer), and she has now published four 'memoirs' about her eventful life. Now she is writing Medical Romances, using some of her own experiences. They are proving popular in the UK. Several are 'in the pipeline.' Her latest publication was a commissioned Historical novel for her local Anglican church's centenary celebrations this year. She carries the history of parts of New Zealand as well as the church through the eyes of fictional characters.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781979832175
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 414
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 197983217X
  • Publisher Date: 19 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 526 gr

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