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Focusing on the most memorable events spanning 50 years, these anecdotes are fascinating, funny, sad, thoughtful, and thrilling, and written with an honesty which is very appealing. They depict a life that began conventionally enough with school and a Medical training, but one that soon branched out into many unexpected byways. It is difficult to understand how one person could do so many things in just one life, many to a high standard. This in addition to the life-saving medical research which made his name globally in his chosen specialty of Anaesthesia and propelled him to the top of his field as Senior Vice-President in the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
The intelligence that can be sensed in this account is that of a person who was never going to settle for a conventional existence and who grabbed life with both hands in a desire to experience as much as possible. Even in times of sadness or setback, this writer finds resilience and a wonderful gratitude for life.
The author has a story-telling gift that cannot be learned, which lifts this memoir above others as it requires no personal knowledge of the man or of the places and people he has written about in order to be enjoyed and moved by this account.
