Rest and Be Thankful
<b>'Gorgeously written ... It's heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into' FLORENCE WELCH</b><br /><b>'Haunting yet beautifully written. I couldn't put it down. A masterpiece' POPPY DELEVINGNE</b><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 /><b>'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> i paper</i></b><br /><b><br /></b><b>'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?' <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br /><b><br /></b><b>'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' <i>Metro</i></b><br /><b><br /></b><b>'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' <i>Economist</i></b>