Killing Me Softly

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781399613125
  • Weight: 466g
  • Dimensions: 162 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Mar 2026
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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'Thrilling . . . I adored every single second' YOMI ADEGOKE

'Incredibly funny, brilliantly disturbing, filled with humanity' JOANNA CANNON

'A nifty, twisty crime story of surgical precision' SEBASTIAN FAULKS

Unexpected deaths and untoward incidents are becoming alarmingly frequent at City Hospital's Emergency Department. A&E Senior Sister, Aoife, begins to question whether her new nurses are incompetent - or worse.

Earnest recruit Eden cares deeply for her patients and carries the Code of Conduct around in her pocket, reporting everyone whose views don't align with hers. But despite her self-righteousness, Eden keeps making mistakes. Is she dangerous?

It is Sophie who worries Aoife the most. Acerbic, over-confident and seemingly lacking in empathy, how Sophie ever became a nurse is beyond her. When Sophie begins an affair with Aoife's best friend, Michael, a man twenty-five years her senior, tensions escalate further, threatening to eclipse the fact that lives are at stake.

Aoife is the nurse we'd all want. Compassionate to the core. She's the nicest, kindest nurse in the world. Until she is tested to the limit . . .

Fearless, fast-paced and darkly funny, Killing Me Softly is a jaw-dropping novel about the hidden extremes of nursing and three complex women who hold the lives of their patients - and each other - in their hands.

Christie Watson is Professor of Creative Writing at UEA and a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She has written eight books, including Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, which won the Costa First Novel award, and a nursing memoir, The Language of Kindness, which was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Christie is a contributor to The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Observer and TedX. Her work has been translated into twenty-three languages and adapted for theatre. She lives in London.

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