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‘It felt like a piece of bad news I should pass on to someone else’ – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on his MS diagnosis

In a powerful and ultimately heartening memoir, the Oxford professor describes being trapped in a mutinous body, and what it does to the spirit

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. [John Cairns]
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  • Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces

    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

    Cape, pp. 256, £18

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