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Item Details
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DIRTY WORK
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| By: |
Gabriel Weston |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1448163730 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781448163731 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
6 June, 2013 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
For both, there is everything to lose. Surgeons are meant to save lives, but Nancy is a special kind of surgeon. When she makes a mistake in the operating theatre she is summoned to explain herself to a tribunal and is forced to consider what it means to be a doctor who has killed as well as cured. |
| Synopsis: |
Winner of the McKitterick Prize Two women in a room.`Courageous' Rachel Cusk, GuardianOne is dying.`Gripping' ObserverThe other just sits back and watches.`Necessary' Independent For both, there is everything to lose.Surgeons are meant to save lives, but Nancy is a special kind of surgeon. When she makes a mistake in the operating theatre she is summoned to explain herself to a tribunal and 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Society of Authors Awards: McKitterick Prize 2014 (UK)
Long-listed for Waverton Good Read Award 2014 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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