This is the debut novel by Alastair Campbell who was born in 1957, went to Cambridge, worked on the Daily mirror and then became Tony Blair's spin doctor.
It is about a psychiatrist who suffers from depression and the patients he treats during one week including a rape victim, a victim of sex trafficking, a supposed sex addict, a burns victim, another depressive and the alcoholic secretary of state for Health!
At the start I was slightly bored. It was clearly meticulously researched and journalistic but the characters didn't seem to live. I wasn't involved. However, as the book neared the end I became hooked and the final chapter packed a tremendous emotional punch.
Jan 2009, 294 pages
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