By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize

The tranquillity of a rural backwater - SHATTERED!

The ancient arts of medicine - EXPOSED!

Her darling cleft-chinned doctor - FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE!


It was a time of wiping. A time of bandaging. Of patients and their incessant needs. In a world where nurses never wash their hands, and doctors are the lowest of the low, one enormous nurse stands up for LOVE - a nurse that will make you fart with fear...