The language of kindness: a nurse's story

<p><b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b></b><br><b>'It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of <i>This is Going to Hurt</i></b></p><p>Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, <i>The Language of Kindness</i> is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness.</p><p>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.</p><p>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...