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From the creator of the hit TV series The Bold Type comes an empowering and heartfelt novel about a future female president's senior year of high school.Ava, CJ, Jordan, and Martha (listed in alphabetical order out of fairness)have been friends since kindergarten. Now they're in their senior year, facing their biggest fears about growing up and growing apart. But there's more than just college on the horizon. One of these girls is destined to ...

Heart-pounding. Soul-wrenching. A psychological thriller that dives into the dark beauty and madness of medicine. What a catharsis to see women bound by friendship and love and ambition peel away the layers of who they are at work. We see them bare their teeth and their souls. It is Big, Little Lies meets Grey's Anatomy in this delicious and satisfying mystery about friendship, love, and why we choose the work we do. Christie Watson has writte...

When you're trained to protect the lives of others, how far will you go to protect your own?Laura is a perfectionist and extremely capable air ambulance doctor. As part of the ethics committee at the hospital, she is also the person who chooses whether critical care patients live or die. She's worked hard to get here: gruelling years at medical school, made bearable by her two best friends, level-headed Olivia and livewire Anjali. As wild all-...

From the Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author, a gripping psychological drama that asks how far will you go to protect your own, when you're trained to protect the lives of others?

A frank, funny and inspiring new memoir from the bestselling author of The Language of Kindness about the search for meaning in midlifeAm I a terrible mother? Is the world ending? Did I turn the oven off? Did I pay the parking fine? Is my TV licence up to date? Will I go to prison? Who will take care of the children?This is the story of Christie Watson's journey through midlife. The joy of letting go and the pain of the morning after, the unst...

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Set in rural Nigeria, "Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away" is the witty and beautifully written story of one family's attempt to survive a new life they could never have imagined, struggling to find a deeper sense of identity along the way.

A wildly entertaining - and necessary book' ELIZABETH DAY'A must-read for every woman, especially those battling through those turbulent midlife years. Christie Watson is fierce, funny and endearingly frank in her fantastic new memoir' JACQUELINE WILSON'Give Quilt on Fire to your daughter, mother, sister, friends. A howlingly good midlife battle cry' JESS KIDD________There is something raw in the fault lines, something wilder and more mysterio...

A frank, funny and tender new book from Christie Watson about the search for meaning in mid-lifeQuilt on Fire reframes mid-life with openness and honesty, and celebrates the messy magic of being a single woman in your forties.Christie has been searching for the meaning of love since her early twenties: when the bright glow of emotion she experienced with her boyfriend turned out to be her bedroom quilt that had caught fire. Now, at the age of ...

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A vital and timely book about inspirational nurses, and the bravery of patients and families, from the bestselling author of The Language of KindnessNurses have never been more important. We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all.In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson ...

A vital and timely book about inspirational nurses, and the bravery of patients and families, from the bestselling author of The Language of KindnessNurses have never been more important. We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all.In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson ...

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Le luci al neon, le pareti bianche e fredde. Il corpo di un bambino avvolto in un morbido lenzuolo. E una donna, china su di lui, che sussurra qualcosa mentre gli bacia il volto e gli accarezza le ginocchia. Molti piani più in basso, nel caos saturo di odori e voci del pronto soccorso, tra alcolisti, senzatetto e il viavai di medici e barelle, una vecchia dall'aria smarrita racconta di un abito da sposa confezionato con la seta di un paracadut...

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Christie Watson is an award-winning, bestselling writer. She has a special interest in nursing and mental health having spent twenty years working as a nurse, and holds an honorary Doctor of Letters for her contribution to nursing and the arts. She is Patron of the Royal College of Nursing Foundation. Her first novel, Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away, won the Costa First Novel and Waverton Good Read Awards and her second novel, Where Women Are Kings, a...

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Twelve-year-old Blessing and her brother are forced to leave their home in Lagos to live with their mother's family in a small village. Blessing's grandmother soon becomes her mentor, teaching her the ways of the midwife in rural Nigeria.