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Flesh and Blood

A History of My Family in Seven Maladies

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  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK (July 27, 2017)
  • Runtime: 10 hours and 11 minutes
  • ISBN13: 9781471164163

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Raves and Reviews

Flesh and Blood is living drama extracted like buried treasure from old documents and the hand-me-down stories of his relatives. I couldn't put it down’

– Jenny Agutter

‘Drama and reality repeatedly intersect in unexpected ways in this powerful and revealing memoir’

– Mail on Sunday

‘With its mix of readable science and passionate sensibility, Flesh and Blood is essentially an attempt to heal the old rift between science and art’

– Radio Times

‘It is an artful, honest book, marked by the author’s clear-eyed examination of how his family’s lives were entwined with history’s often terrible markers’

– New Statesman

‘Each event becomes real, in one breath fascinating with medical detail, in the next an emotional contraction. Elegant in its metaphors, this book is about memory, how it shapes us, and what we choose to pass on. If all that remains of us is the story we tell, then McGann’s narrative is an insightful, beautiful legacy’

– The Irish Times

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