Great read. Two, intertwined familial histories flow alongside two patriarchs' work & early accounts of neuroscience, neurosurgery & their seminal work in understanding the mind & its pathologies.
My favourite Sebastian Faulks book since the soaring, melancholic & brilliant Birdsong.

Loved the birdsong O'DB - lots of empathy with the life of the daring bird!

Will check this one out.

Yeah Birdsong is way up there in my favourite books of all time list. I have to admit though that I struggled with Human Traces, I couldn't engage with the characters enough and there is a lot of medical jargon in there which took away a bit of enjoyment. Perhaps I was punching above my weight.

Medical is O'db's background I believe (pharmacology at royal free then Columbia) , maybe that's why it worked?

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