A memoir of pain, and of how to surgically save a life
Written by Professor Jim McCaul, a consultant surgeon at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and one of Britain’s leading maxillofacial surgeons, Face to Face records some of his most challenging operations
Memoir: Face to Face, By Professor Jim McCaul, Bantam Press, €21
Bestselling books of recent years, particularly those in the memoir genre, have frequently had a common theme. They’re about pain. Men’s pain, and more often women’s pain. Deep-rooted, personal, physical and emotional pain. Pain is lucrative: who’d want to hear from a writer who has lived an apparently painless life? The words used by critics to describe these books – ‘searing’ and ...
