Random Home presents the audiobook model of The Vocabulary of Kindness: A Nurse’s Tale, written and browse by Christie Watson.

Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to loss of life and from A&E to the mortuary, The Vocabulary of Kindness is an amazing account of a profession defined by works of care, compassion and kindness.

We watch Christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously managed to get through the night, we the stand by position her aspect during her patient’s agonising heart-lung transplant, and we keep our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, wanting to remove the toxic smell of smoke cigarettes before the grieving family arrive.

Inside our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, Christie has been us. She actually is a guide, mentor and friend. And in these dark days of department and isolationism, she motivates us all to stretch out a hand.