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The West End Nannies
- Author
- Pam Weaver
- Narrator
- Helen Phillips
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Publish Date
- 9 October 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
It is 1962 and 18-year-old Jenny is finally able to train for her dream job as a nanny. The residential training is tough – Matron takes no prisoners but Jenny bonds with her two roommates, Bernice and Rita, and loves helping the children.
If only her family life could be so happy – her brother, Maurice, is a wrong’un and seems to have some hold over her father, and Jenny has never got over the sudden disappearance of her mother.
Finally, Jenny gets her first nanny job, heading for the bright lights of London at the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. Suddenly she is thrust into the lifestyle of the rich at a household in the affluent West End, working for a family whose busy lifestyle means that their child is neglected.
Can Jenny heal their family – and her own?
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Details
- Author
- Pam Weaver
- Narrator
- Helen Phillips
- Duration
- 9 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399199070
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Genre
- Family saga / generational saga fiction
Synopsis
It is 1962 and 18-year-old Jenny is finally able to train for her dream job as a nanny. The residential training is tough – Matron takes no prisoners but Jenny bonds with her two roommates, Bernice and Rita, and loves helping the children. If only her family life could be so happy – her brother, Maurice, is a wrong’un and seems to have some hold over her father, and Jenny has never got over the sudden disappearance of her mother. Finally, Jenny gets her first nanny job, heading for the bright lights of London at the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. Suddenly she is thrust into the lifestyle of the rich at a household in the affluent West End, working for a family whose busy lifestyle means that their child is neglected. Can Jenny heal their family – and her own?
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