Bücher von Mira Harrison

As the global COVID-19 pandemic reaches the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand, four women find themselves in novel circumstances as healthcare professionals, and in their personal lives. In these new fictional tales from the author of Admissions, we meet doctors, nurses and other workers as a public hospital struggles to prepare for the worst.In the days before lockdown, a nurse's visit to the supermarket has an unexpected outcome... A medical student employed in the hospital kitchens begins a relationship with another essential worker who provides her with an alternative education... When her daughter returns home with the virus, a professor of obstetrics faces the challenges of her hospital work while meeting the demands of motherhood under lockdown... Home alone after her husband is taken away, a retired surgeon reflects on life, love and death in the time of COVID...In New Admissions, each woman's voice draws back the curtain on the lives of healthcare workers as they face the pandemic. These four highly engaging stories explore themes of caring and coping, joy and passion, fear and death - and most importantly of love, in all its complicated forms - in the time of lockdown.

Eight women share their experiences of life in a public hospital in southern Aotearoa. These are fictional narratives of doctors, nurses, cooks and cleaners who work at the heart of clinical medicine. They keep a struggling institution going, while navigating the highs and lows of their own supposedly ordinary lives. The hospital that connects these women is in a remote city, in a beautiful land, but it could be anywhere, everywhere.These linked stories are much more than descriptions of women at work. They are intimate confessions of mothers, daughters, friends, lovers, and the connections that shape their lives. Each unveils the ever-present, ever-changing balance between professional and private worlds. We planand predict, yet sometimes we stumble and fall. Our careful - or haphazard - strategies are disrupted by falling in love; by our links to others; by the birth of our children; by our deepest or most impulsive feelings; by love and loss and grief, and of course ultimately by death.Admissions is calm, seductive and deceptive: things pop out to disturb when least expected from such everydayvoices. The tales are gripping and convincing - we feel we know these characters already, as lives intersect within thehospital world. Now there is chance to know them better ...