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The Night Interns by Austin Duffy (Granta Publishing) 4 Stars

Publication date UK format 4/8/22 book 208 pages


I would like to thank the author, publishers and Netgalley for allowing me to pick this to read and review all my reviews are honest.




Synopsis


Intravenous lines, catheters, bodies in distress, wounds: three young surgical interns working the night shift must care for - and keep alive - the influx of patients, while frightened and uncertain about what the night will throw at them.


The Night Interns beautifully conjures the alien space of the hospital wards and corridors through the viewpoint of one of the interns, as he comes to terms with the bodily reality of the patients and the bizarre instruments of healing. Equally unsettling for the inexperienced junior staff are the dysfunctional hierarchies of the hospital workplace. Under intense pressure and with very little sleep, the interns become inured to their encounters with sickness, all the while searching for the meaning in their work.


By turns moving, shocking, and darkly funny, The Night Interns fizzes with nervous energy, forensic insight and moral tension, as it evokes life and death on the frontline.


My Review


This was a very good and very unique style for a novel. I really enjoyed reading it. It definitely felt more like I was reading a autobiography/memoir than a novel. This just really intrigued me all the more. I couldn't believe how life like the novel was. Its just nothing like I have ever read before in a fiction book. It was wrote so well with it flowing amazingly. It was a great medium paced book. I think it's only downside was it lacked a dramatical event that speeds up the story to an exciting end. Yes there was drama but it certainly didn't take the way I was expecting it to or would of wanted it too, to get that 5th star as it definitely had the potential. I really liked the characters which had plenty of differences. I definitely warmed to them and sometimes they felt familiar. I will definitely be looking out for more books by this author.

So much praise goes out to the author and publishers for creating this brilliant and intriguing story that im sure you will love too.


Where you can buy this book


Amazon US K $11.34



Waterstones PB £12.99



Google Books ebook £8.96



Kobo ebook £9.39



Amazon UK K £9.39, PB £11.95


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HAPPY READING


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