A compassionate, heartbreaking and compelling account of an NHS doctor in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in living memory

'Powerful, uplifting and even reassuring . . . superb' Madeleine Bunting, Guardian

' A beautiful, blistering account of a key moment in our history. If I were Boris Johnson, I wouldn't want to read it' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times

'This memoir of the first wave of Covid will, I predict, be read a century from now as one of the best eyewitness accounts of what happened in the nation's wards in 2020. But it is no less important that it be read now, as a riveting, heart-wrenching testimony from the front line . . . Clarke writes with grace and empathy about her patients and colleagues . . . A must-read' Matthew D'Ancona