The Sunday Times bestselling memoir about nursing and an urgent
call for compassion and kindness
Christie Watson's first novel, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, won the Costa First Novel Award; her second, Where Women Are Kings, achieved international critical acclaim; and her nursing memoir, The Language of Kindness, was a number one bestseller. In 2020, during the first peak of the pandemic, she published The Courage to Care and briefly returned to clinical work. Christie was shocked not only by the changing world, but her changing body, as her perimenopause took hold. Quilt on Fire, her fifth book, is the funny, honest and liberating account of her midlife journey.
If it's taken a very long time to get a memoir written by a nurse,
then it was certainly worth the wait. I have rarely read anything
that has moved me as much or taken me by the hand so confidently
into an unknown world, teeming with life and haunted by death... A
remarkable book that I will be pressing on everyone I love
*The Sunday Telegraph*
A powerful insight into the life of nurses
*The Times, **Books of the Year***
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 ... A gently remarkable book… it’s a privilege to have
Christie as our guide
*Guardian*
Wonderful
*Sebastian Faulks*
A deeply compassionate book… It will leave you weeping as well as
hopeful
*Sunday Times, **Books of the Year***
An amazing book -- terrifying at times, but tender and truthful.
Let's be thankful for wonderful nurses -- and writers -- like
Christie Watson
*Jacqueline Wilson*
Compared with the recent rash of doctor memoirs, this is a far
quieter and more thoughtful book
*Guardian, **Books of the Year***
I challenge anyone to get through all 336 pages without shedding a
tear for what those who work in "the most undervalued of all
professions" have to witness ... Expect her stories [...] to linger
with you many days after the final chapter
*The Sunday Times*
A remarkable book about life and death and so brilliantly written
it makes you hold your breath
*Ruby Wax*
A poignant and powerful account of what it’s like to be a nurse.
It’s a profession that touches all our lives delivering expert and
compassionate care from the cradle to the grave. A must-read for
nurses and those interested in understanding the true art and
science of nursing
*Professor Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England*
Lyrical, moving ... Watson tackles grisly deaths and eccentric
patients, but also the importance of comfort and empathy in nursing
with engrossing results ... A nurse's voice has never really been
heard before on this scale. Now's the time for it to ring out
loud
*Stylist*
A wise and tender book, by turns fierce, compassionate, and
revelatory. It shows the joys and the difficulties of looking after
people at their most vulnerable, and makes an urgent plea: as a
society we have to care better for the nurses who care for us
*Dr Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being*
A touching and thought-provoking memoir that makes an impassioned
plea for the appreciation of the nursing profession ... [Watson] is
an elegant, eloquent writer who brings an immediacy to her work.
You are right there beside her all the way as she provides a
fascinating insight into the trials and triumphs of life in an NHS
hospital ... A rallying call for kindness and compassion that every
one of us should embrace
*Daily Express*
There’s one woman who is particularly inspiring me right now….
Christie Watson, who wrote this book called The Language of
Kindness... She was an NHS nurse and it is an autobiographical book
and it is absolutely breath-taking and it is incredibly affecting
and I think it highlights the need for us to be helping nurses
where we can. She just is an incredibly strong woman
*Emilia Clarke*
Through Watson, we are taken on an absorbing, all-seeing tour
through the doors of the hospital ... In Watson's honest memoir, we
are reminded that we are all made from the same fibres and are all
in this together, exploring the human condition and learning the
language of kindness
*The Observer*
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