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The Last Cold Day: Understated lessons of life, love and loss dispatched from the heart
Sara Berkeley’s beautifully written account of her time as a hospice nurse is well worth a read – even if you think poetry is not for you
How must it feel to be a vital presence – trying to provide comfort while remaining unobtrusive – at numerous deathbeds where grieving families gather or patients die alone? Only a hospice nurse could say. But as few are writers, few have the language to do so.
Occasionally in this book, Sara Berkeley reminds me of Brian Keenan. While many people find themselves held hostage, few possess the imaginative and emotional perspective to describe their ...
