A short, uplifting account of hope and healing by the author of ‘Adventures in Human Being’.
When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the periphery of our lives – until we are forced to contend with what they really mean.
Here, GP and writer Gavin Francis explores how – and why – we get better, revealing the many shapes recovery takes, its shifting history and the frequent failure of our modern lives to make adequate space for it.
Characterised by Francis’s beautiful prose and his view of medicine as “the alliance of science and kindness”, ‘Recovery’ is a book about a journey that most of us never intend to make. Along the way, he unfolds a story of hope, transformation, and the everyday miracle of healing.
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- Date published
- Format
- Paperback
- Extent
- 144 pages
- ISBN
- 9781800810488
About the author
Gavin Francis
Gavin Francis is a GP and the author of eleven books of non-fiction including Adventures in Human Being (2015) Shapeshifters (2018), Intensive Care (2021), Recovery: the Lost Art of Convalescence (2022) and Free For All (2023) - a passionate defence of the principles of the NHS. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of General Practitioners. His books have been translated into twenty languages. His latest book, The Unfragile Mind, examines mental health, arguing for greater curiosity, humility, kindness, and hope in approaches to psychiatric diagnosis.