Juliet's nurse

Description:

A "new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the Cappelletti's darkest secrets. Those secrets--and the nurse's deep personal grief--erupt across five momentous days of love and loss that destroy a daughter, and a family"--Amazon.com.

subjects: Grief,  Family secrets,  Adaptations,  Wet nurses,  History,  Fiction,  Families,  Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William),  Historical fiction,  Vendetta,  Nannies,  Large type books

People: Juliet (Fictitious character),  William Shakespeare (1564-1616),  Romeo (Fictitious character)

Places: Verona (Italy),  Italy

Times: 1268-1492