The Language of Kindness: the Costa-Award winning #1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Christie Watson

The Language of Kindness is written by Christie Watson. It is a non-fiction account of nursing, described as an exploration of care, compassion and kindness.

Key details

• Author: Christie Watson
• Non-fiction account centred on the nursing profession
• Described as a Costa Award-winning title
• Described as a #1 Sunday Times bestseller

Synopsis

Christie Watson draws on her twenty years as a nurse, taking the reader from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary. The book is presented as an account of a profession shaped by acts of care, compassion and kindness.

It includes moments such as caring for a premature baby who makes it through the night, supporting a patient through an agonising heart-lung transplant, and washing the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire before the family arrives. Set against what the description calls “days of division and isolationism”, it also offers an encouragement to reach out to others.