![]() Agent: Niki Chang, The Good Literary Agency. The novel is visceral, and readers will keep turning the pages in fascinated dread. Glass’s prose perfectly elicits the restless waking torment that drapes over Laura. 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. ![]() ![]() And Rest and Be Thankful conveys all the. 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. Emma Glass still combines practice with writing, a richly gifted young novelist the author, in 2018, of Peach who works as a children’s nurse. 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. ![]()
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