\'Gorgeously written ...
A battlefield atmosphere arises from Glass\'s prose as she recounts the time-stopping teamwork that aims to preserve tiny, fragile lives\' Economist.
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\'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\'Thrusts the reader into the pulse-raising fear, frenzy and relief of work in a paediatric intensive-care unit ...
This, though, is a trauma-generating war on death and despair fought for us in every city, every day\' i paper\'Touching, devastating, almost absurdly pertinent ...
Glass\'s battlefield prose calls to mind the literature of the trenches.
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 ...
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.
Laura needs a rest.
A masterpiece\' POPPY DELEVINGNELaura is a nurse in a paediatric unit.
I couldn\'t put it down.
It\'s heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into\' FLORENCE WELCH\'Haunting yet beautifully written. \'Gorgeously written ..
