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Christie Watson won the Costa First Novel Prize for her book, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, but before she was a writer she spent 20 years as a registered nurse. In this beautiful, bestselling memoir, she reflects upon her long—and often thankless—career in hospital corridors and curtained cubicles, emptying bed pans and washing broken bodies, reminding us of the vital importance of human contact and kindness during what are, for many patients and their families, the most frightening times of their lives. Like This is Going to Hurt, Watson’s book is a record of working for the UK’s beloved—and besieged—National Health Service.
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