The human body – a personal guide

20 March 2025, The Tablet

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The thrill on entering an operating theatre for the first time Gabriel Weston recalls as being “like standing in Dorothy’s shoes as she walked out of her tornado-transported house into the Technicolour clarity of Oz”. A typically dazzling metaphor of the sort that earned her previous book, Direct Red, in which she recounts the dramas and pitfalls of her journey down the Yellow Brick Road to becoming a surgeon, the TLS Ackerley Prize.

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