Physical description

Stapled booklet with black cover. Title and authors name are printed in white on the front cover along with phograph of a sculpture of two hands reaching towards each other ['hands' by Henry Moore]

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'For Dorothy / with best wishes / Betty Jeffrey [Handwritten in blue ink on the first page]
'From the library of / Dorothy [?] Verosta[?]' [Printed at the bottom of a book plate sticker that is attached to the inside cover, with the name hand signed in blue ink]

Summary

This is a short book about nurses, the enduring race of women into whose helping handsnwe all of us inevitably fall, from time to time, from birth to death. How could we do without them? (taken from the foreward, page 3)