Bibliograph

Paradise Lodge, a novel, Nina Stibbe

Type

Label

Paradise Lodge, a novel, Nina Stibbe

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Paradise Lodge

Oclc number

940361552

Responsibility statement

Nina Stibbe

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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--, Adapted from publisher website

Target audience

adult

Classification