
Rest And Be Thankful
'Gorgeously written . . . It's heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into' - FLORENCE WELCH * 'Haunting yet beautifully written. I couldn't put it down. A masterpiece' - POPPY DELEVINGNE
Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long shifts she cares for sick babies, carefully handling their exquisitely breakable bodies. Laura 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.
'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' - i paper * '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?' - 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 . . . A battlefield atmosphere arises from Glass's prose as she recounts the time-stopping teamwork that aims to preserve tiny, fragile lives' - Economist