by Christie Watson · VINTAGE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784706883
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«The Language of Kindness» (A Nurse's Story) is the memoir by Christie Watson, published by Vintage in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Christie Watson, a nurse for twenty years, recounts her work in the British healthcare system, accompanying patients from birth to death, from the ER to the morgue. She recalls cases such as a premature baby or a heart-lung transplant to show that medical care rests on acts of care, compassion and kindness.
Number one Sunday Times bestseller. The first edition appeared in 2018; this Vintage edition is from 2019.
For readers of medical memoirs, nursing professionals and those seeking real stories about healthcare.
Christie Watson is a British writer and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and worked for more than twenty years as a nurse before becoming an author. She has written eight books: four novels, including her first novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away (2011), which won the Costa First Novel Award, and four works of non-fiction, including memoir, The Language of Kindness which was a number one Sunday Times Bestseller and spent five months in the Top Ten Bestseller list. Her work has been translated into twenty-three languages, adapted for theatre, and is currently being developed as a television series. Killing Me Softly, her latest novel, will be released March 2026.
