Seizing the Ivy

"A veteran ward sister and nurse, Ivy Maude Gorwick survived years of bicycling to work in a blacked-out city beneath the flake-rattled night skies of World War Two. She now anticipates a respite from years of hard work and lonely widowhood as a resident of the Glebe Repose, a modish elderly care facility. But things are not as they seem, and there are still battles to be won. Ivy fights for her convictions with dignity against bureacurats and bunglers. At once poignant and humorous, this is the touching story of a proud woman's painful adjustments to the realities of aging, changing standards, and mother-daughter misapprehensions."--