Christie Watson

Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. She worked in a variety of healthcare settings, but spent most of her career in paediatric intensive care in large NHS hospitals before becoming a resuscitation nurse. Christie now teaches and writes and advocates for nursing. Her first novel, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, won the Costa First Novel Award and her second novel, Where Women Are Kings, was also published to international critical acclaim.Her works have been translated into eighteen languages.About The Language of KindnessTaking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astonishing account of a professiondefined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. In the year in which we celebrate the 70 th anniversary of the NHS, The Language of Kindness is set to be one of 2018’s most urgent, most talked about and best-loved books.