-Gorgeously written ... It-s heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into'' FLORENCE WELCH-Haunting yet beautifully written. I couldn-t put it down. A masterpiece- POPPY DELEVINGNELaura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long shifts she cares for sick babies, carefully handling their exquisitely breakable bodies.Laura needs a rest. When she sleeps, she dreams of drowning; when she wakes, she can-t remember getting home. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, with a message, or a warning.-Blends gnawing tension and surging tenderness ... Glass-s battlefield prose calls to mind the literature of the trenches. This, though, is a trauma-generating war on death and despair fought for us in every city, every day- i paper-Touching, devastating, almost absurdly pertinent ... What, Glass asks, do we expect from our caregivers, and how do we repay them for the burdens we lay on them?- Times Literary Supplement
