By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize
The tranquillity of a rural backwater – SHATTERED!
The ancient arts of medicine – EXPOSED!
Her darling cleft-chinned doctor – FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE!
It was a time of wiping. A time of bandaging. Of patients and their incessant needs. In a world where nurses never wash their hands, and doctors are the lowest of the low, one enormous nurse stands up for LOVE – a nurse that will make you fart with fear…