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Joanna Cannon The Borough Press, 2018, HB, 464pp, £14.99, 978-0008196912 I saw a frail, severely kyphotic 80-year-old lady mobilising slowly with her Zimmer frame in surgery this week. I confess to not being overly excited by her presenting complaint of a cough. However, as she apologised for coming to see me for what was ‘probably just a self-limiting viral infection, doctor, but I was worried I might not be able to compensate for much longer given my age and comorbidities’ , I sat up straight, turned my hunched body away from the computer, looked at my patient, and asked what she had done for work before. Her face blossomed into a knowing smile as she informed me that she was a retired casualty sister of a large London teaching hospital. In that instant I …
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