Bodies: From the creator of Line of Duty

Bodies: From the creator of Line of Duty

by JedMercurio (Author)

Synopsis

Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider has been allowed to see, not even the young men and women who arrive there to begin careers in medicine. They think it's going to be like TV, and pretty soon they wish it was, because instead they're surrounded by death, disease and suffering and their only outlets are pitch-black humour and urgent, visceral sex. Into this world plunges an idealistic young doctor. But as one harrowing ordeal follows another his relationship becomes increasingly cynical with patients and colleagues and he finds escape in a purely physical relationship with a student nurse. Then something happens that shocks him into seeking redemption, but he can gain it only by challenging the most powerful institutions of medicine. Written by a former doctor, Bodies is a novel of almost unbearable power and intensity, an urgent despatch from the frontline of hospital life. It is also a moving portrait of the loss of innocence, the healing power of sexual love, and of a young man's quest for redemption in a world that long ago lost its sense of right or wrong.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 07 Mar 2002

ISBN 10: 0224061976
ISBN 13: 9780224061971
Book Overview: An incredibly powerful and disturbing novel about a junior hospital doctor. The first novel by the writer of Cardiac Arrest.

Author Bio
Jed Mercurio trained at the University of Birmingham Medical School and worked at various hospitals in the West Midlands. He wrote the highly acclaimed television drama Cardiac Arrest (under the pseudonym of John Macure). Bodies is his first novel.