How to Use a Fork
Stories of Mending the Broken Brain
$31.38
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2027
Summary
‘Deserves to join Oliver Sacks and Henry Marsh on the list of top popular neuroscience writers’ Melanie Reid, The Times ‘Beautifully observed, beautifully written …’ Rory Stewart ‘Intensely moving and awe-inspiring’ Marina Hyde ‘A tribute to the spirit of people faced with calamity’ Literary Review
Every ninety seconds someone is admitted to hospital in the UK with a brain injury. From the woman who …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035064380 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035064383 |
| Author: | Orlando Swayne |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
An incredible voyage of discovery … intensely moving and awe-inspiring – Marina Hyde
A master-class in clinical observation, witty, modest and enthralling. In these dispatches from the front-line of neuro-rehabilitation, Orlando Swayne offers love, joy, and humanity with the eye of a reporter and the soul of a poet. In the strange, sad world of broken brains, this will become a shaft of light and hope. – Robert McCrum, author of My Year Off: Rediscovering Life After a Stroke
It’s like walking hand in hand with Dr Swayne and his patients, which made me ache with hope that even in the darkest places you can find your way back – Abi Morgan
‘Enjoyable, instructive and humane. It is a welcome addition to the noble tradition of Oliver Sacks … Neuroscience, medicine and vulnerable humanity woven together in intricate and compelling tales from the front line. – Professor Ian Robertson, author of How Confidence Works
Compelling and lucid … Anyone who has enjoyed Oliver Sacks’ case studies in neuroscience will find this book irresistible. It’s popular science writing of a very high level. * Library Journal *
Orlando Swayne
Orlando Swayne is a consultant neurologist who works primarily in the neurorehabilitation of acquired brain injury, including stroke, but who also has a wide general neurology practice.
He is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), where he co-leads the Neurorehabilitation Unit. He is also a member of the Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation at the UCL Institute of Neurology.
He also works at Northwick Park Hospital and the Wellington Hospital.
He has published widely on the control of movement by the brain and the role of brain plasticity in recovery following stroke. How to Use a Fork is his first book.
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