Product Description

Blonde and impossibly beautiful, Sally Brown is a probationary nurse at General Hospital and the star of 'Hospital Nurse Picture Library'. With her friend and colleague Maureen Evans she patrols the kind of wards that would have been familiar to her readers thanks to television. "Emergency Ward 10" had been running since 1957 so everyone knew that hospitals were buildings full of dishy doctors and patients in need of a little tender loving care."The Hospital Nurse" series was first launched in 1963 and for years thereafter, young girls, young women and not-so-young women invested a shilling each month to keep up with the romantic adventures of young Sally Brown. In the 1960s, nursing was second only to being an air hostess when it came to glamorous occupations for girls. Tales like "First Love", "Live and Love", "Kiss and Remember" and "Fooling With Love" tap into the obvious elements of love and romance - but titles like "Man Crazy" and "Naughty Nurse" hint that there is more fun to be had in these picture stories than between the prim covers of a Mills and Boon novel.If you think hospitals are just sterile wards full of sick people, think again.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #452202 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
Melissa Hyland has spent most of her working career writing for and editing a variety of magazines, mostly concerned with crafts and collecting. She has been a life-long fan of comics, starting with Jackie as a girl, and has fond memories of curling up with the romantic pocket libraries that appeared in the 1960s and 1970s.

Customer Reviews

Hospitality sweet
This book takes me right back to my childhood! Those of you around the thirty(ish!) mark will no doubt remember the 64 page comics that used to be in circulation, with names such as Bunty, and Debbie. For the boys, there were Warlord and Commando comics. The heroine in this publication is probationary nurse Sally Brown, who is something of a matchmaker and problem solver in the hospital she works in. It's all very sweet and sugary in parts,but of true intrinsic retro value for those of you in the aforementioned age group. Definitely worth a look!