The hatchet-faced nurse
Character
Minerva Ledwitch’s remembered nurse of trauma. A face, an institution and an old wound compressed into one silhouette.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…of the female face with the dark curls, the fake leather, dredged up another long-interred image, of a hatchet-faced nurse, and the image of the hatchet-faced nurse exhumed another in its turn, this time a tableau vivant: a lithe, languorous fawnish young woman, all honeyed tresses and daisy chains, reclining nude upon the sheepskin rugs flung over the battered sofa as the hairy brute with flashing black eyes and waistcoat…