Dirty Work |
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| Author:
| Weston, Gabriel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-224-09128-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2013 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.99 |
Book Description:
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Two women in a room. One is bleeding to death. The other just sits back and watches. For both, there is everything to lose. Surgeons are meant to save lives, but Nancy is a special kind of surgeon. Doctors are meant to be good at reporting the truth, but Nancy's is an untellable story. A mistake made in the operating theatre changes all of this. Summoned to explain herself to a tribunal appointed by the General...
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Two women in a room.
One is bleeding to death.
The other just sits back and watches.
For both, there is everything to lose.
Surgeons are meant to save lives, but Nancy is a special kind of surgeon. Doctors are meant to be good at reporting the truth, but Nancy's is an untellable story.
A mistake made in the operating theatre changes all of this. Summoned to explain herself to a tribunal appointed by the General Medical Council, Nancy is forced to consider what it means to be a doctor who has killed as well as cured. And to realise that her own redemption can only come through telling a tale that nobody wants to hear.
Gabriel Weston, author of the acclaimed Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story, winner of the 2010 PEN/Ackerley Prize, has written an extraordinarily moving and powerful novel about a female doctor who performs abortions.