Trisha Greenhalgh's Top Book Recommendations

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This Thing Of Darkness

This is an epic novel of sea-faring adventure set in the 19th century charting the life of Robert Fitzroy, the captain of `The Beagle` and his passenger Charles Darwin. It combines adventrure, emotion, ideas, humour and tragedy as well as illuminating the history of the 19th century. Fitzroy, the Christian Tory aristocrat, believed in the sanctity of the individual, but his beliefs destroyed his career and he committed suicide. Darwin, the liberal minor cleric doubts the truth of the Bible and develops his theory of evolution which is brutal and unforgiving in human terms. The two friends... more
Recommended by Trisha Greenhalgh, and 1 others.

Trisha Greenhalgh@Liz_ORiordan @thereadingwomen @HannahPopsy Will do by end Jan, promise, but am reading a really great and very long book by a white bloke about white blokes right now (I know I know), see 'This Thing of Darkness' about Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy: https://t.co/FL9K3GIlsg (Source)

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We Can Make A Life

Hours after the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake, Kaikōura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling stories and memories from her own remarkable family history.

Chessie rebuilds her family’s lives on the page, from her parents’ honeymoon across Africa, to living in Tokelau as one of five children under ten before returning to New Zealand, where her mother would set her heart and...
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Trisha Greenhalgh@chessiehenry really loved your book! Respect to your amazing parents. So hard for doctors to go sick. (Source)

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Girl, Woman, Other

From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, as well as looking back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.

The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is...
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Nicola Sturgeon@HannahB4LiviMP And what a present...best book of 2019 IMO (Source)

Trisha GreenhalghThis is a great book. https://t.co/iOLKPuiUsc (Source)

Peter FlorenceI cannot imagine anyone not enjoying this novel. As an author she possesses a prolific voice; she’s got 12 voices, all of which are distinct and engaging and vulnerable in different ways and utterly compelling. (Source)

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