And that’s a silly example, but it’s blood, sweat, and tears. And I stuck my arm out, and people have bled me. When I worked as a specialist for infectious diseases, some of my patients would need sets of control bloods to be sent alongside theirs to help with diagnostics. I have on occasion given blood for my patients, and not as in having gone to the blood bank. Laura gives everything of herself to her job. Our starred review calls the book “a heart-wrenching and poetic look at a profession that deserves more literary attention.” We spoke over Zoom the conversation has been edited for length and clarity. And that’s not to mention the ghost she starts seeing around the hospital. The book tells the story of Laura, a nurse at a children’s hospital in London, and though it was written before the pandemic, it’s easy to imagine nurses right now experiencing the burnout Laura feels working night shifts, caring for dying patients, watching her personal life evaporate. now after having been published in Britain the day before the country went on lockdown last March. Welsh author Emma Glass has been so busy with her job as a nurse that she almost forgot that her second novel, Rest and Be Thankful (Bloomsbury, Dec.
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