The Language of Kindness av Christie Watson

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<p><b>Read Costa Award-winning author Christie Watson''s incredible No. 1<i> Sunday Times</i> bestselling memoir of nursing today.</b><br><b><br> ''It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh'' Adam Kay, author of <i>This is Going to Hurt</i> and <i>Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas</i></b><br><br> 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> In our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, Christie is with us. She is a guide, mentor