A Map of Small Hours — Nora Ashby

4.5Based on 2 reviews

Two night-shift nurses, one Boston hospital and a friendship that outlasts thirty years of 3 a.m. coffee.

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About this book

Nora Ashby spent eleven years working nights before she wrote a word of fiction, and it shows. This warm, funny and sometimes heartbreaking novel follows Della and Ruth from their first shift in 1989 to their last.

It is a book about the people who keep the lights on while the rest of us sleep. Book clubs love it, and we have a free discussion guide at the counter.

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Literary fiction, 336 pages
Hardcover with printed endpapers
Paperback edition with book club questions
Staff pick, fall season

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Imani, fiction buyer: The most tender friendship I have read in years.

Reviews (2)

2 reviews for A Map of Small Hours — Nora Ashby

Rated 4 out of 5

Peter Lang (verified owner) – September 6, 2026

Warm and funny with a gut-punch near the end. Bring tissues.
Rated 5 out of 5

Denise Carter (verified owner) – September 21, 2026

Our book club talked for three hours. Several of us are nurses and it rang true.