White Trash by J King

White Trash by J King

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A story of class-hatred and murder set in a hospital in a satellite town in the south-east of England. The novel pits nurse against consultant; a working-class woman against an upper-middle-class man.

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White Trash by J King

A classic tale of good against evil, John King's new novel pits nurse against consultant; a working-class woman against an upper-middle-class man. Ruby is a locally-born nurse, who enjoys life to the full, lives in the present and likes to find the best in everyone. For her, the hospital in which she works is society in microcosm: a chaotic, exciting landscape of work and play where everyone has a story to tell. For Mr Jeffries, the consultant, however, the patients he attends and the staff he has to deal with are all tarred with the same brush: an ignorant, lazy, drunken, violent, drug-crazed rabble. White trash. One of his main responsibilities is to allocate resources and cut down on expenditure; what he sees as streamlining is, in effect, a terrifying policy of social cleansing. Arrogant and elitist, Jeffries hankers after a class system that has gone - but that he wants reestablished. When Joy becomes suspicious about the death of a patient, a clash between the two is, suddenly, inevitable.
John King lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9780099283065
ISBN 10 0099283069
Title White Trash
Author J King
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 2002-06-06
Number of pages 368
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.