“Miss N. had taught her nurses to watch carefully in order to understand what the ill required and provide it. Not medicine – that was the doctors’ domain – but the things she argued were equally crucial to recovery: light, air, warmth, cleanliness, rest, comfort, nourishment, and conversation.”

“Miss N. had taught her nurses to watch carefully in order to understand what the ill required and provide it. Not medicine – that was the doctors’ domain – but the things she argued were equally crucial to recovery: light, air, warmth, cleanliness, rest, comfort, nourishment, and conversation.”

— Emma Donoghue