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'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; Guardian First Book Award; and Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

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 consequences when it all goes wrong?

DO NO HARM offers an unforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated to operating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity. With astonishing candour and compassion, Henry Marsh reveals the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital, and above all the need for hope when faced with life's most agonising decisions.

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    9781780225920
    Author
    Henry Marsh
    Publisher
    Orion
    Published
    28 October 2014
    Format
    Paperback / softback

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    '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; Guardian First Book Award; and Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize

    Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

    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 consequences when it all goes wrong?

    DO NO HARM offers an unforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated to operating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity. With astonishing candour and compassion, Henry Marsh reveals the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital, and above all the need for hope when faced with life's most agonising decisions.

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