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The Thin Green Wedge
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781036974992
Publisher: Shieldmaiden Press
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
WHERE SAVING LIVES MEETS SURVIVING YOUR OWN
Lucy Whiteheart is the woman everyone depends on.
A frontline paramedic in the Northeast.
A single mum to three boys.
The calm voice in chaos. The capable one. The strong one.
The one who keeps going.
Through blue lights and broken bodies. Through impossible decisions, night shifts, caffeine and dark humour. Through motherhood, heartbreak and the relentless pressure of holding everything, and everyone, together.
But behind the uniform, Lucy is unravelling.
Years of giving too much of herself and asking for nothing in return have left invisible scars. The kind you hide well. The kind nobody notices until coping becomes performance... and survival becomes routine.
Then her health begins to fail.
And for the first time in her life, Lucy is forced to stop running from the one person she's spent years trying to ignore:
herself.
Set against the raw and unpredictable world of frontline emergency healthcare, The Thin Green Wedge is a darkly funny, deeply honest and emotionally charged story about burnout, motherhood, grief, identity, resilience and the quiet ways women lose themselves while trying to save everyone else.
Perfect for readers who love emotionally powerful contemporary women's fiction with flawed characters, sharp humour and real heart.
Because sometimes the people trained to save lives are the very ones silently crying out to be saved themselves.
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