Emma Glass Rest & Be Thankful Paperback Book

Gorgeously written ... Its heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into FLORENCE WELCHHaunting yet beautifully written. I couldnt put it down. A masterpiece POPPY DELEVINGNELaura 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 cant remember getting home. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, with a message, or a warning. Blends gnawing tension and surging tenderness ... Glasss battlefield prose calls to mind the literature of the trenches. This, though, is a traumagenerating war on death and despair fought for us in every city, every day i paperTouching, 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 SupplementThe 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 MetroThrusts the reader into the pulseraising fear, frenzy and relief of work in a paediatric intensivecare unit ... A battlefield atmosphere arises from Glasss prose as she recounts the timestopping teamwork that aims to preserve tiny, fragile lives Economist | Emma Glass Rest & Be Thankful Paperback Book