An astonishingly candid insight into the life and work of a modern neurosurgeon - its triumphs and disasters. A SUNDAY TIMES bestseller, and shortlisted for the GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD and the COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD, as well as longlisted for the SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? This memoir gives astonishingly candid insight into the career of one of the country's leading neurosurgeons, and into the countless dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Now in paperback.