![]() Her second novel Rest and Be Thankful will be published by Bloomsbury. ![]() Her debut novel Peach was published by Bloomsbury in 2018, has been translated into seven languages and was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. ![]() Agent: Niki Chang, The Good Literary Agency. Emma Glass was born in Wales in 1987 and is now based in London, where she writes and works as a children's nurse. The novel is visceral, and readers will keep turning the pages in fascinated dread. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely frangible bodies, carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep. Glass’s prose perfectly elicits the restless waking torment that drapes over Laura. In semi-waking moments, Laura begins seeing a haunting figure from her dreams: “in the pitch black her face shines sickly white, picked out by a shard of moonlight.” When Laura starts seeing the figure in the hospital whenever a death occurs on the ward, she worries she is going mad. You are drowning out the world with loud sounds and whisky,” Laura narrates in a second-person passage addressed to him). When Laura is not working in the ward, she is at home with her partner, a man who seems to not love her or want her near (“The television is blaring. While working night shifts in a neonatal ward in London, Laura and her colleagues swaddle infants, care for them in their first moments of life, and watch as sick babies die from incurable ailments. Glass ( Peach) delivers a slim, dreamy sophomore novel about a sleep-deprived nurse. ![]()
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