Florrie's Girls (U)

"Of the new wave of female writers... the finest for me is Maeve Kelly." Irish TimesEighteen-year-old Cos arrives in post-war London to begin her nursing training at a small hospital run by nuns, dreaming of the Ireland she has left behind. With her young colleagues Binks and Hanly, she finds survival a tricky business. As she ministers to the sick, Cos bends every nerve to fit into the decrees of the hospital system and falling in and out of love, her world turns upside down.