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" -- Nicholas
Shakespeare * Daily Telegraph *
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