A powerful, gripping novel that confronts one of the great contemporary taboos head-on. By the author of the brilliant Direct Red.
Gabriel Weston was born in 1970. She qualified as a doctor in 2000 and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2003. Her first book, Direct Red, was published in 2009. It was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. She lives in London and continues to practise as a part-time ENT surgeon.
A lot of novels are called “brave”, and they aren’t. This one
is.
*Lionel Shriver*
A brilliantly intense, thought-provoking story
*Stylist*
Gripping, well-researched and elegantly written
*Evening Standard, Books of the Year*
This courageous and interesting author is that unusual thing, a
contemporary moralist
*Guardian*
Bold, brave, and uncomfortable… it's a gripping read
*Observer*
The subject matter is brave, the moral perspective complex, the
writing vivid
*Mail on Sunday*
Weston has an unwavering passion for the truth as well as the
courage to tell it.
*Sunday Telegraph (Seven)*
Weston excels at writing about medicine precisely…but with great
subtlety of tone that allows readers to appreciate the human
faultlines that lie beneath conventional portraits of
doctoring.
*The Times*
Weston is a superb writer of lucid and evocative prose… This is not
a dark book so much as a deeply thoughtful one
*Independent*
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