`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 `Each event becomes real, in one breath fascinating with medical detail, in the next an emotional contraction. Elegant in its metaphors, this book is about memory, how it shapes us, and what ... Read morewe choose to pass on. If all that remains of us is the story we tell, then McGann's narrative is an insightful, beautiful legacy'
The Irish 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 `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 `Drama and reality repeatedly intersect in unexpected ways in this powerful and revealing memoir'
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