William Leith3 June 2014
This is a novel about a doctor who makes a terrible mistake.
Nancy Mullion is performing an operation when her patient starts bleeding and Nancy finds herself unable to stop the bleeding. She freezes. She’s suffering from post-traumatic stress. It’s shocking. Nancy is an abortionist. And this novel is about what happens to this particular abortionist; it might make you think differently about the whole subject. You can agree with something in theory, she says, but when you actually have to witness it, everything looks different. And this narrator makes you feel as if you are witnessing it.
Visceral and moving.
