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The Application of Pressure

The Application of Pressure

by Rachael Mead
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/05/2020

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For paramedics Tash and Joel, a regular workday is like a supercut of the worst days of other people’s lives.

They maintain their sanity through a friendship built on black humour, but as the constant exposure to trauma takes its toll, both, in different ways, must fight to preserve their mental health and relationships – even with one another. How much pressure can they handle, and what will happen when they finally crack?

With each chapter revolving around an emergency – some frightening, some moving, some simply funny –Rachael Mead digs beneath the surface of gore and grit to lay bare the humanity of emergency services personnel and their patients. This breathtaking novel reveals not only the trauma of a life lived on the front line of medicine, but also the essential, binding friendships that make such a life possible.

ISBN:
9781925972634
9781925972634
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-05-2020
Publisher:
Affirm Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x22mm
Weight:
0.39kg

‘A delicate story with blood and guts.’ STEVEN AMSTERDAM

‘Authentic and original.’ PETER GOLDSWORTHY

‘A book for our times.’ MOLLY MURN

‘A brilliant-cut gem.’ MARGARET MORGAN

‘Tender, riveting and funny.’ REBEKAH CLARKSON

‘Mead tells us how it is to be a paramedic – there is no euphemism, no sugar coating – but she does it with such compassion and humour that there is never a need to turn away. In fact, I couldn’t put it down.’ PIP WILLIAMS

Rachael Mead

Rachael Mead is a poet, writer, and arts reviewer living in South Australia. She has an Honours degree in Classical Archaeology, a Masters in Environmental Studies, and a PhD in Creative Writing. She is the author of four collections of poetry: The Flaw in the Pattern (UWA Publishing 2018), The Sixth Creek (Picaro Press 2013) and the chapbooks Sliding Down the Belly of the World (Wakefield Press 2012) and The Quiet Blue World (Garron Publishing 2015).

Rachael has published widely with her work appearing in Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Westerly, Cordite, Island, Southerly and many other publications. In 2019 she was awarded a residency in northern Italy, as part of an AP/NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship.

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