{"product_id":"rest-and-be-thankful-emma-glass","title":"Rest and Be Thankful (Emma Glass)","description":"\u003cdiv\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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmma Glass was born in Wales in 1987 and is now based in London, where she writes and works as a children's nurse. Her debut novel \u003ci\u003ePeach \u003c\/i\u003ewas published by Bloomsbury in 2018, has been translated into seven languages and was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second novel \u003ci\u003eRest and Be Thankful \u003c\/i\u003ewill be published by Bloomsbury in 2020. \u003cbr\u003e@Emmas_Window\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 160 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65880156897629,"sku":"K090281440","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9028144000001A.jpg?v=1789009719","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/rest-and-be-thankful-emma-glass","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}