The In-Between
A hospice nurse's encounters with death and what they reveal about living
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4.6 • 21 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
At the edge of life, Hadley Vlahos's patients confront faith, regret, love and the mysteries that medicine cannot explain.
Palliative care nurse Hadley Vlahos describes encounters with hospice patients whose final days reshape her understanding of purpose and hope. An elderly man sees visions of his late daughter; a younger patient regrets time spent fearing judgement; another woman's certainty in her faith is unsettled by the approach of death.
The In-Between is a memoir about hospice nursing, end-of-life care and the questions that surface when our time becomes limited. Vlahos considers how people make peace with dying, how the living retain bonds with those they have lost, and what death can teach about life.
For readers seeking compassionate writing about grief, palliative care, death and dying, these patient stories offer neither a single explanation nor easy certainty. Their power lies in the individual encounters and in the questions they leave open.
Customer Reviews
Exceptional!
I absolutely loved this book. I have listened to my mum and sister in the last 18 months and continue to struggle but this book brought me so much comfort and I’m so grateful. Hadley is an extraordinary caring, loving person, professional yet humble and this world would benefit from more people like her! Please write another Hadley!
I loved this book.
Well written, engaging, honest, informative, heartwarming, confronting, and comforting. I’ve often thought about training as a hospice nurse, the author describes perfectly the compassionate end of life nursing I would hope to emulate. I would love to read a second book in the same thread as our young nurse author continues to grow in her career and life.
Amazing!!
Couldn’t stop reading and made we tear up multiple times.