Rest and Be Thankful
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&apos;Gorgeously written ... It&apos;s heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into&apos; FLORENCE WELCH &apos;Haunting yet beautifully written. I couldn&apos;t put it down. A masterpiece&apos; POPPY DELEVINGNE Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long shifts she cares for sick babies, carefully handling their exquisitely breakable bodies. Laura needs a rest. When she sleeps, she dreams of drowning; when she wakes, she can&apos;t remember getting home. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, with a message, or a warning. &apos;Blends gnawing tension and surging tenderness ... Glass&apos;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&apos; i paper &apos;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?&apos; Times Literary Supplement &apos;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&apos; Metro &apos;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&apos;s prose as she recounts the time-stopping teamwork that aims to preserve tiny, fragile lives&apos; Economist


Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition (March 19, 2020)
Publication date: March 19, 2020
Language: English
File size: 1135 KB
Text to Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 142 pages
Page numbers source ISBN: 1526601079