Rest and Be Thankful

Beschreibung

'Gorgeously written ... It's heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into' FLORENCE WELCH<BR>'Haunting yet beautifully written. I couldn't put it down. A masterpiece' POPPY DELEVINGNE<BR><BR>Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long shifts she cares for sick babies, carefully handling their exquisitely breakable bodies.<BR><BR>Laura needs a rest. When she sleeps, she dreams of drowning; when she wakes, she can't remember getting home.

And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, with a message, or a warning.<BR><BR>'Blends gnawing tension and surging tenderness ... Glass's battlefield prose calls to mind the literature of the trenches. This, though, is a trauma-generating war on death and despair fought for us in every city, every day' i paper<BR><BR>'Touching, devastating, almost absurdly pertinent ...

What, Glass asks, do we expect from our caregivers, and how do we repay them for the burdens we lay on them?' Times Literary Supplement<BR><BR>'The ward scenes, with their crystalline descriptions of the vertiginous business of care, exquisitely beat out the ceaseless rhythms of life on a hospital front line' Metro<BR><BR>'Thrusts the reader into the pulse-raising fear, frenzy and relief of work in a paediatric intensive-care unit ...

A battlefield atmosphere arises from Glass's prose as she recounts the time-stopping teamwork that aims to preserve tiny, fragile lives' Economist

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