The Wet Nurse's Tale

Susan Rose isn't the average protagonist - she's scheming, promiscuous, plump, smart, funny, tender and entirely lovable. Like many working-class women in Victorian England she was born into a world that offered very few opportunities for the poor and unlovely. But Susan is the kind of plucky heroine who seeks her fortune, and finds it - with a little help from her breasts. As a professional wet nurse, she breast feeds the children of healthy women who can't or won't nurse their own babies. But when her own child is sold by her father, Susan embarks on a rescue mission.