Rest and be thankful by emma glass

'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 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

'Touching, devastating, almost absurdly pertinent.

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

When she sleeps, she dreams of drowning when she wakes, she can't remember getting home. On long shifts she cares for sick babies, carefully handling their exquisitely breakable bodies. It's heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into' FLORENCE WELCH