Nursing: An Exquisite Obsession Clark June Nursing: An Exquisite Obsession 220pp £12.99 Quay Books 9781856425094 1856425096 [Formula: see text].

One of the publishing trends of recent years has been nursing memoirs. Heartwarming anecdotes of the nursing care provided for eccentric patients are generally combined with attacks on supposed developments in nurse education after about 1975, and the whole account is bathed in the light of a golden age that has passed. This memoir emphatically rejects such nostalgia.