Bedpans & Bobby Socks - Barbara Fox and Gwenda Gofton (2011)
I often haunt the biographies section of the library, as all the fiction can make you a bit jaded and bored. This one was one of those that I picked up , put down and went back to. Five nurses leave the UK and head off to the US to work at a hospital in Cleveland in the 1950s. After living closeted lifes in post war Britain, they find a lot of freedom in the States. Not only is work more fun, but they can leave the twinsets behind, and the girls dig out the shorts and tshirts.
Buying an old banger of a car, they travel across the country from Cleveland to LA, up to Alaska and down to Mexico and across to Hawaii meeting all sorts along the way . Camping a lot of the way, they manage to work to support their two years OE. A 3/5 for this read about five girls in a changing world.
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