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The Wet Nurse's Tale by Eisdorfer, Erica is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wet Nurse's Tale about?

In her first novel, Eisdorfer offers as a guide to Victorian England her entertaining and surprising protagonist, Susan Rose. A bawdy young woman who could easily have walked off the pages of The Canterbury Tales , Susan ends up wet-nursing after getting unexpectedly and illicitly pregnant, and her alcoholic and abusive father forces her to leave her child and take up the occupation. Her journey into the intimate lives of England's upper crust proves an illuminating and dangerous one as Susan jumps from family to familyuntil her father sells her son. As Susan attempts to balance other peoples' babies with her quest to regain her own, she is faced with difficult choices between duty and love, and between her life and her child's. Whether she is carousing in the Jewish quarter or planning how to reclaim her son, Susan navigates the stratified social world with humorous vigor. A promiscuous, randy and hefty lady, Susan's a vibrant character, at once sweet and scheming, and given to such a crass frankness that even readers wary of historicals may want to give this a look.

Who reads The Wet Nurse's Tale?

Author

Eisdorfer, Erica

Publisher

Berkley Trade

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101106808

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (130 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14