- Published: 5 February 2019
- ISBN: 9781784706883
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $26.00
The Language of Kindness
the Costa-Award winning #1 Sunday Times Bestseller











- Published: 5 February 2019
- ISBN: 9781784706883
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $26.00
The Language of Kindness exerts the power of a gripping novel threaded with science, philosophy, history and ethics. Like poetry, it resists paraphrase. A quick summary is out of the question, this brilliant life-changing book has to be experienced.
Martina Evans, Irish Times
Watson evokes the topography of each arm of nursing in vivid detail.
Irish Times
I defy anyone to finish this without weeping and giving thanks for the NHS… An important book that should be on every reading list.
Fanny Blake, Woman & Home
[A] powerful account of her life as a nurse… reading her memoir is a truly uplifting experience.
Jacqueline Wilson, The Week
[Watson] is an elegant, eloquent writer who brings an immediacy to her work. You are right there beside her all the way as she provides a fascinating insight into the trails and triumphs of life in an NHS hospital… a rallying call for kindness and compassion that every one of us should embrace.
Mernie Gilmore, Sunday Express
A nurse’s voice has never really been heard before on this scale. Now’s the time for it to ring loud.
Stylist
Watson writes so well, movingly but sparingly, that the result is a profoundly vivid impression of working in a busy hospital
Jessamy Calk, Daily Telegraph
Through Watson, we are taken on an absorbing, all-seeing tour through the doors of the hospital
Molly Case, Guardian
The Language of Kindness could not be more compelling or more welcome. It's about how we survive, and about the people who help us do so
Roxana Robinson, New York Times Book Review