Meet Queenie. She just can't cut a break.
Well, apart from one from her long term boyfriend, Tom.
That's just
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It's 1953, the year Elizabeth is to be crowned Queen of Engl&. Elsie Kettle can't wait to go to London with her beloved nan to see the Coronation Day celebrations. Then tragedy strikes. Nan & Elsie both fall ill with tuberculosis & Elsie is whisked away to the children's ward of Miltree Hospital. Confined to bed for months, Elsie misses Nan desperately, & struggles to adapt to the hospital's strict rules. But every night after lights-out she tells magical tales of adventure to the other children on the ward. For the first time, Elsie finds herself surrounded by true friends
- including Queenie, the hospital's majestic white cat. Finally, Elsie is well enough to leave the hospital. But before she does, she has one very special, very unexpected visitor... Read by Finty Williams