A rare, original and humane book that will shock you, move you and stay with you long after the last page - a TOP TEN BESTSELLER in hardback
Gabriel Weston was born in 1970. She went to Edinburgh University to read English and from there to medical school in London. She graduated as a doctor in 2000 and became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2003. She now works as a part-time ENT surgeon. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
Hard to imagine a better book, or a more original one...writes at
least as well as many good novelists...funny, and honest, and
beautifully done
*Claire Tomalin*
Her wisdom, empathy, morality and self-awareness are very
revealing... Her writing is as incisive, precise and clean as
keyhole surgery
*The Times*
A beautiful, haunting and upsetting book. Weston's prose is cool
and elegant
*Sunday Telegraph*
Direct Red is Gabriel Weston's memoir of the years she spent
pursuing a surgical career... She examines these with an honesty
that is both brave and uncomfortable
*Guardian*
What a terrific book. Gabriel Weston's voice is so seductive; her
wisdom so fresh and earned, and unimpaired by sentimentality, and
yet you sense her empathy - and scintillating honesty - behind
every well-turned sentence. She leaves you feeling that if push
came to shove you'd want to be operated on by her
*Daily Telegraph*
A curiously thrilling read, written with an elegance of expression
heightened by both its clarity and economy. Weston slices into
sentences with scalpel-like precision
*Observer*
Concise, literate, truthful and often moving... as well-written and
sensitive an account, by a decent, cultivated and highly
intelligent person, of the glories and miseries of the practice as
are likely ever to read
*Literary Review*
This is a compassionate, front-line report from what can often seem
like alien territory.
*Daily Telegraph Summer Reads*
The practice of medicine is a way of living: vivid and engrossing,
it stimulates senses physical and metaphysical...It is a rare skill
for a doctor to be able to communicate this rich sensorium in
writing. It is a delight to read the words of one who does it so
well
*The Economist*
A superb account of life on the grisly front line of the operating
theatre
*Sunday Times*
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