THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS - 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 astounding 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.
The jacket art work Blue D.I by Wojciech Fangor from the Jankilevitsch Collection, was chosen to convey an abstract sense of radiating feeling and emotion, and even perhaps in this context, that most fundamental and essential sense: kindness.
The Language of Kindness is published by Chatto and Windus and out now.
