Emma Glass still combines practice with writing, a richly gifted young novelist – the author, in 2018, of Peach – who works as a children’s nurse. And no department of hospital medicine hosts a front line denser in anguish, terror and last-ditch hope than the paediatric unit.ĭoctors have written honoured literature since ancient times nurse-writers have been a much rarer breed.
Even in more normal times, however, frontline care throws crisis after crisis at staff forever just one tough shift away from exhaustion. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.The current pandemic means that the psychology of medical emergencies affects everyone. Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature" (George Saunders). A darkly shimmering novel of a nurse on the edge of burnout, by "an immensely talented young writer. Dark yet luminous, sensual yet chilling, ringing with strange music and laced with dread, Rest and Be Thankful is an unforgettable novel that confirms Emma Glass as a visionary new voice. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, always just beyond her reach. When she sleeps, she dreams of water when she wakes, she finds herself lying next to a man who doesn't love her any more. Her hands have been raw from washing as long as she can remember. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely frangible bodies, carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep them alive.
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