Agent: Niki Chang, The Good Literary Agency. The novel is visceral, and readers will keep turning the pages in fascinated dread. A masterpiece - Poppy Delevingne In Glass's trademark, lyrical style, it follows a woman on the edge - a night-shift nurse in a pediatric unit who may or may not be seeing things LitHub, Most Anticipated Books of 2020 Atmospheric and eerie, Rest and Be Thankful is full of Glass's poetic observations, and will leave you thoroughly haunted. Glass’s prose perfectly elicits the restless waking torment that drapes over Laura. In semi-waking moments, Laura begins seeing a haunting figure from her dreams: “in the pitch black her face shines sickly white, picked out by a shard of moonlight.” When Laura starts seeing the figure in the hospital whenever a death occurs on the ward, she worries she is going mad. You are drowning out the world with loud sounds and whisky,” Laura narrates in a second-person passage addressed to him). When Laura is not working in the ward, she is at home with her partner, a man who seems to not love her or want her near (“The television is blaring. While working night shifts in a neonatal ward in London, Laura and her colleagues swaddle infants, care for them in their first moments of life, and watch as sick babies die from incurable ailments. Glass ( Peach) delivers a slim, dreamy sophomore novel about a sleep-deprived nurse. Welsh author Emma Glass has been so busy with her job as a nurse that she almost forgot that her second novel, Rest and Be Thankful (Bloomsbury, Dec.
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