Chris Davies Curtis

From Queen's Nurse to Godzone Chris Davies Curtis Second edition

In her third book Chris Davies Curtis looks at her life as a district nurse. From London in the 60s to New Zealand in the 70s she describes with humour and pathos the many patients she treated and the sometimes difficult situations she encountered. We meet again husband Ken and read how they met on a pony-trekking holiday, learn of their early years of marriage in London and their eventual emigration to New Zealand in 1976 with young son Roy. After a two-year working tour of New Zealand (see ?From a Feudal Isle to Aotearoa?) they had fallen in love with this beautiful country. They leased off their guest house and smallholding on the tiny feudal island of Sark in the British Channel Islands (see ?So You Want to Live on Sark?) and emigrated In ?From Queen?s nurse to Godzone? Chris tells of visiting her patients in rough areas of London, riding a bicycle and having to boil instruments and bake dressings in the days before pre-packaged equipment. In New Zealand she exchanged her bicycle for a car and was the sole nurse on call twenty-four hours a day, in charge of patients living in an extended area of forests, orchards, vineyards, villages and seaside settlements. As in the two other books in this series, the Author has illustrated each chapter.