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THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS - CHRISTIE WATSON KART...

Read Costa Award-winning author Christie Watson's incredible No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling
memoir of nursing today. 'It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh' Adam Kay  author
of This is Going to Hurt and Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas Christie Watson was a nurse
for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary  The Language of
Kindness is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care  compassion and
kindness. We watch Christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously made it through
the night  we stand by her side during her patient's agonising heart-lung transplant  and we
hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire  attempting to
remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive. In our most extreme moments
when life is lived most intensely  Christie is with us. She is a guide  mentor and friend. And
in these dark days of division and isolationism  she encourages us all to stretch out a hand.'A
powerful insight into the life of nurses' The Times  Books of the Year'A remarkable book about
life and death and so brilliantly written it makes you hold your breath' Ruby Wax

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