All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying By Ruth Co

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Powered by Frooition.com\n\nAll Items\n See our eBay store for more great items >> \n\nShop Categories\n\n \n{Title}, {ItemCondition}\n\n--\n\n--\n\n\""A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice\"" The Guardian\n'Breath-taking courage and compassion [...]a beautiful book' The Sunday Times 'An extraordinary tale' Evening Standard 'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to the shared grave of two men in love, and it's in caring for that young man who just needed information without judgement.'\nIn 1986, 26-year-old Ruth Coker Burks visits a friend in hospital when she notices that the door to one of the patient's rooms is painted red. The nurses are reluctan.