Christie Watson Livres

A story of family, belonging and love from the Costa-winning author of Tiny Sunbirds Far Away.

A vital and timely book about inspirational nurses, and the bravery of patients and families, from the bestselling author of The Language of KindnessThe handbook for compassion...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness `It made me cry.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt 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 touching and beguiling first novel from the author of The Language of Kindness

A frank, funny and inspiring new memoir from Christie Watson about the search for meaning in mid-life Quilt on Fire reframes mid-life with openness and honesty, and celebrates the messy magic of being a single woman in your forties. Christie has been searching for the meaning of love since her early twenties- when the bright glow of emotion she experienced with her boyfriend turned out to be her bedroom quilt that had caught fire. Now, at the age of 44, following what she thought was a spectacular breakdown (and that turned out to be the peri-menopause), she asks the question- what does love mean now? Christie takes us on a very funny, sometimes shocking and touchingly poignant journey- through peri-menopause and single parenting, via a world pandemic, to a place of change and acceptance that her younger self would never have believed...

Disease is an inevitable risk for those who keep cattle and very often it has a huge impact on the animal's welfare, as well as its productivity. This easy- to-understand book covers the principal diseases and conditions that occur in cattle. It is suitable for those who own, or care for, cattle.

You're trained to save the lives of others. How far would you go to protect your own?Ruthlessly ambitious Olivia, anxious perfectionist Laura and free-spirited risk-taker Anjali couldn't be more different. Yet their friendship, which began on the first day of medical school, has kept them inseparable for twenty-five years. As wild all-nighters and exam pressures gave way to the struggles and joys of new motherhood and intense jobs, their bond remained unbreakable. Years ago they promised that nothing would come between them and that they'd do anything for one another, including burying one night they have never spoken about: a drug-fuelled university party that forced them to make a deadly choice that could still destroy them.When an eerily similar tragedy strikes involving their teenage children, everything the three women have built threatens to shatter around them. And they are left asking: just how far can you stretch a friendship before it snaps?

Mit ganzem Herzen im Einsatz fürs Leben Sie ist hellwach und ihre Hände sind ruhig, auch wenn das Geschehen um sie herum ihr oft genug das Herz zerreißt. Christie Watson war über zwei Jahrzehnte als Pflegfachkraft im Einsatz und erzählt in bewegenden Geschichten von Neuanfang, Hoffen und Abschied im Krankenhaus. Sie nimmt uns mit in die flirrende Atmosphäre der Notaufnahme, wo Schwerverletzte hinter dünnen Vorhängen erstversorgt werden, wo Drogensüchtige im Delirium warten neben Patienten wie der Witwe Betty, die leise über Brustschmerzen klagt und Zuwendung braucht. Auf der Kinder-Intensivstation kämpft sich der kleine Emanuel trotzig ins Leben. Und was auf der Krebsstation am Ende wirklich zählt, begreift Christie, als ihr Vater im Sterben liegt. Jeder von uns erkrankt irgendwann einmal im Leben. Und jeder wünscht sich, dann nicht nur richtig, sondern gut behandelt zu werden. Christie Watson erinnert daran, was uns alle verbindet: Die universelle Sprache der Menschlichkeit.