Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies Audiobook

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• ‘Flesh and Blood is living drama extracted like buried treasure from old documents and the hand-me-down stories of his relatives. I couldn't put it down’

  — Jenny Agutter

• ‘Drama and reality repeatedly intersect in unexpected ways in this powerful and revealing memoir’ 

  — Mail on Sunday

• ‘With its mix of readable science and passionate sensibility, Flesh and Blood is essentially an attempt to heal the old rift between science and art’ 

  — Radio Times

• ‘It is an artful, honest book, marked by the author’s clear-eyed examination of how his family’s lives were entwined with history’s often terrible markers’ 

  — New Statesman