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  • Published: 3 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473556287
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 58 min
  • Narrator: Christie Watson
  • RRP: $24.99

The Language of Kindness

the Costa-Award winning #1 Sunday Times Bestseller





An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story, written and read by Christie Watson.

Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astonishing account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness.

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.

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 and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a hand.

  • Published: 3 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473556287
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 58 min
  • Narrator: Christie Watson
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Christie Watson

Christie Watson is an award-winning, bestselling writer. She has been a nurse for over twenty years.

The Language of Kindness was published in 2018 and was a number one Sunday Times Bestseller. It was a Book of the Year in the Evening Standard, Guardian, New Statesman, The Sunday Times and The Times. It has been translated into 23 languages, and is currently being adapted for theatre and television.

Her first novel, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, won the Costa First Novel Award and Waverton Good Read Award and her second novel, Where Women Are Kings, also achieved international critical acclaim.

Christie holds an honorary Doctor of Letters for her contribution to nursing and the arts and is Patron of the Royal College of Nursing Foundation. She lives in South London.

www.christiewatsonauthor.co.uk

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Praise for The Language of Kindness

You know she dug deep for this book… You are also privy to an extraordinary world and appreciate Watson’s lasting belief: that most of us are inherently kind – and the better for showing it

Kerry Fowler, Sainsbury’s Magazine

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

Molly Case, The Observer

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