'A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT' IAN MCEWAN

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What is it like to be a brain surgeon?

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason?

How do you live with the consequence...

'Enthralling' GUARDIAN

'Incredibly absorbing ... astonishingly candid' Bill Bryson

Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature

Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; Duff Cooper Prize; Wellcome Book Prize; Guardia...