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Jun 25, 2024
272 pages
Genre: Thrillers
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From the author of the smash UK bestseller The Language of Kindness comes an electrifying, high-stakes literary thriller following three best friends since medical school and the twenty-five-year-old secret that now threatens to shatter their lives.
When you're trained to protect the lives of others, how far will 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 the first day of medical school—has kept them inseparable these past twenty-five years. As wild all-nighters and exam pressure gave way to the struggles and joys of new motherhood and new jobs, their unbreakable bond helped them support each other through it all.
Long ago, they promised that nothing would come between them, and to do anything for one another—including burying that night they have never spoken about: a university party fueled by drugs, sex, and secrets that forced them to make a deadly choice that could have destroyed them. But is there a limit to what we would do for those we love?
When an eerily similar tragedy strikes involving the women's teenaged children, everything the three friends have built threatens to crumble around them ... forcing them to decide how far they can stretch their friendship before it snaps.
A taut and explosive novel about loyalty, ambition, betrayal, and revenge, Moral Injuries explores the sometimes-hidden costs of friendships, and the lengths people will go to protect themselves.
"[P]ropulsive…[Watson] shines in her portrayal of medicine as an imperfect blend of art, science, and emotion. Fans of medical fiction will admire this." —Publishers Weekly
"Gripping, introspective, and packed with as much drama as a whole season of Grey's Anatomy." —Booklist
"The sins of the mothers are visited on the children in former nurse Watson's superior medical thriller." —The Guardian (UK)
"This deep dive into professional ethics, which reads like an ITV thriller, Sunday nights, 9pm, is likely to leave the reader deeply unsettled, and perhaps never again willing to view healthcare professionals in quite the same light." —The Independent (UK)
"Moral Injuries takes the reader into a world where medicine meets morality, and every choice has a cost. With page-turning twists, it explores friendship, betrayal and the decisions that define us." —Nathan Filer, Sunday Times bestseller and Costa winning author of The Shock of the Fall
"An exploration of moral ambiguity and what it really means to protect a life. Watson understands human flaws with empathy and insight. I've never read a novel before that combines such riveting accounts of frontline medicine, female friendship and family dynamics. Unique and compelling." —Elizabeth Day, bestselling author of Magpie
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Christie Watson trained as a pediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and worked as a senior staff nurse and educator for over ten years before joining the University of East Anglia for her MA in Creative Writing. There she won the Malcolm Bradbury Bursary for her work. Watson lives in South London with her Nigerian Muslim partner and their large dual-heritage family.
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