A review by bryonybh
Metamorphosis by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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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.