Walking wounded
Llewellyn, Sheila2018
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Set in Northfield, an understaffed military psychiatric hospital immediately before the NHS is founded, 'Walking Wounded' is the story of a doctor and his patient: David Reece, a young journalist-to-be whose wartime experiences in Burma have come back to haunt him violently; and Daniel Carter, one of the senior psychiatrists, a man who is fighting his own battles as well as those of his patients'. Based closely on extensive research and inspired by the author's own experience treating victims of PTSD, this moving and impressive debut explores violence and how much harm it does to those forced to inflict it in the name of war. It also captures the dilemmas of the medics themselves as they attempt to 'fix' their patients, each of whom raise the question of what has happened to their humanity, what can be done to help them, and what we are willing to sacrifice in the name of healing.
Main title:
Walking wounded / Sheila Llewellyn.
Author:
Llewellyn, Sheila, author
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2018.
Collation:
264 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781473663107 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92F
LC class:
PR6112
Local class:
FT FICF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2253197