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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She...

Recorded in front of a live audience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this fantastic anthology features a host of diverse short stories, composed and performed by a veritable Who's Who of stand-up comedians. By turns hilarious and irreverent, poignant and bittersweet, together they make up a superb selection box of tasty treats.

Hjertet på rette sted er en gribende, smuk og samtidig underholdende fortælling om en sygeplejerskes kamp for at forblive menneskelig i et presset sundhedsvæsen. Christie Watson har arbejdet som sygeplejerske i 20 år. Hun har tidligere udgivet en række anmelderoste romaner, men denne bog er hendes personlige fortælling fra hendes virke som sygeplejerske: Om være tilstede i livets allermest intense øjeblikket, både ved dets begyndelse og dets afslutning. Hendes fortælling er en vigtig påmindelse om at værne om de kerneværdier, der ligger i sygeplejefaget: omsorg, pleje og medmenneskelighed.

Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel - only married women can work there - and soon they have to quit their air-conditioned apartment to go and live with their grandparents in a compound in the Niger Delta.

“Heart-pounding. Soul-wrenching. A psychological thriller that dives into the dark beauty and madness of medicine. What a catharsis to see women bound by friendship and love and ambition peel away the layers of who they are at work. We see them bare their teeth and their souls. It is Big...