Moral injuries

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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-nighters and exam pressure gave way to the struggles and joys of new motherhood and new jobs, their unbreakable bond has supported each other through it all. And then, one night, life overturns in a moment and the past threatens to shatter everything they hold dear in the present. Can even those we trust with our lives be dangerous in the right circumstances? And is there a limit to what we would do for those we love?

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From the Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author Christie Watson, comes a heart-pounding new psychological drama of secrets, lies, morals and medicine.


‘Unique and compelling’

ELIZABETH DAY

‘True literary perfection’
EMMA JANE UNSWORTH

‘Heart-stopping, twisting, funny and frightening’
CHRIS WHITAKER

‘Enthralling, gripping, deliciously dark… An immersive, unforgettable gem’
RACHEL CLARKE

‘Propulsive, funny and filled with suspense’
SARAH LANGFORD

You’re trained to save the lives of others. How far would you go to protect your own?

Ruthlessly ambitious Olivia, anxious perfectionist Laura and free-spirited risk-taker Anjali couldn’t be more different. Yet their friendship, which began on the first day of medical school, has kept them inseparable for twenty-five years. As wild all-nighters and exam pressures gave way to the struggles and joys of new motherhood and intense jobs, their bond remained unbreakable. Years ago they promised that nothing would come between them and that they’d do anything for one another, including burying one night they have never spoken about: a drug-fuelled university party that forced them to make a deadly choice that could still destroy them.

When an eerily similar tragedy strikes involving their teenage children, everything the three women have built threatens to shatter around them. And they are left asking: just how far can you stretch a friendship before it snaps?

‘Each new twist screeches like nails on plaster’
KATHRYN MANNIX

‘Where medicine meets morality… with page-turning twists’
NATHAN FILER

‘Intelligent, propulsive and disturbing… I couldn’t put it down’
NIKKI SMITH

‘An extraordinary book’
JOHN SUTHERLAND

‘No-one writes about the drama of medicine like Christie Watson’
DR GAVIN FRANCIS

Additional information

Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 23.2 × 15.2 × 2.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition

Export ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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