TY - BOOK AU - Prentis,Evelyn TI - A nurse and mother: my life as a post-war nurse SN - 9780091941383 U1 - 920 PRE PY - 2012/// PB - Ebury KW - Prentis KW - Nurses KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century N2 - At the end of the Second World War, as husbands came back to Civvy Street their wives had the luxury of staying at home with the children. For a short while at least. Soon Evelyn realised she had to find part-time work to make ends meet, and to her astonishment she was offered part-time hours at her old hospital ER -