{"product_id":"9781526609229-rest-and-be-thankful","title":"Rest and Be Thankful","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Gorgeously written . It’s heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into' FLORENCE WELCH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Haunting yet beautifully written. I couldn’t put it down. A masterpiece’ POPPY DELEVINGNE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long shifts she cares for sick babies, carefully handling their exquisitely breakable bodies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘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’\u003ci\u003e i paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘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?’ \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘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’ \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘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’ \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944628727905,"sku":"9781526609229","price":7.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31300837.jpg?v=1731573285","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526609229-rest-and-be-thankful","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}