![]() ![]() At night she dreams of drowning in a cold, dark lake, in the presence of a “figure, a faceless form, a shadow settled in silt.” In the morning, Laura finds herself treading literally and figuratively around the residue of a broken relationship: Our main character, Laura, is a pediatric nurse working 12-hour shifts caring for sick children. ![]() In comparison, Glass’s latest book, Rest and Be Thankful, while not as experimental or surreal as its predecessor, is a more mature work, a haunting, intimate portrayal of the nurses who sacrifice their physical and psychological well-being for the sake of others. It blended the absurd with the traumatic and was told in a staccato, alliterative style reflecting the protagonist’s state of mind. Peach, Glass’s debut novel published in 2018, was an ambitious, if not entirely successful, story about sexual abuse and revenge. While I know it’s odd to say anything remotely positive about 2020, I found this to be an incredible year for fiction and especially sophomore novels from some of the UK’s brightest authors, including Daisy Johnson, Sophie Mackintosh, Megan Hunter, and now Emma Glass. ![]()
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