Not your average nurse: the entertaining true story of a student nurse in 1970s London

To a young girl the life of a nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it's never easy.

So when Maggie Groff embarks on her training at London's King's College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with a demanding career.

It's sink or swim. From the watchful gaze of stern sisters and the trials of nursing on a poor south-east London housing estate, to the explosive dramas of staff health checks at sophisticated Selfridges, Maggie shares warm and witty stories of mistakes and mayhem, tea and sympathy, and the life-affirming moments that make it all worthwhile.