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Metamorphosis by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

pepeleb's review

funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

miajade's review

hopeful slow-paced

1.5

daisgilb's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

emmavardy2's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Really insightful book. Helpful for those with MS and those without wanting to understand better the challenges.

janefc's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

tildafin16's review

emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

bryonybh's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

It’s hard to put into words how utterly compelling and remarkable this book is. As an Oxford academic,  Robert Douglas-Fairhurst unsurprisingly knows how to write. In this book, he turns his attention to his own life and his recent diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. What follows is a painful and shocking account of how his world changed overnight, interspersed with the books he turned to in order to try and find some understanding and meaning. This is an open and honest dissection of what it means to enter the ‘land of the sick’, which is enriched by the parallel writings of Bruce Frederick Cummings in 1919.