Paradise Lodge

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This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people`s home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos & it`s not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she`d only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase & it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend or a punk. Lizzie has some knowledge of old people (they`re not suited to granary bread, & you mustn`t compare them to toddlers) but she doesn`t know there`s a right way to get someone out of the bath, or what to do when someone dies. When a rival old people`s home with better parking & daily chairobics threatens to take all their patients, Paradise Lodge`s cast of staff & helpers, from the assertively shy Nurse who only communicates through little grunts to the son of the Chinese takeaway manager who`s renowned for his erotic handholding techniques, have to come together to save the home before it`s too late. From the bestselling author of Love, Nina comes a story of being very young, & very old, & the laughter, & the tears, in between.