"Absence" sees the National Health Service through the eyes of Nick Page, a young doctor in free fall into despair. Beneath the comic surface is a serious investigation into human nature -- its desires, its prejudices, its unhappiness -- and the various absences that haunt and intoxicate it. It is a rare book which combines real humour with sustained intellectual inquiry.
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"Absence" sees the National Health Service through the eyes of Nick Page, a young doctor in free fall into despair. Beneath the comic surface is a serious investigation into human nature -- its desires, its prejudices, its unhappiness -- and the various absences that haunt and intoxicate it. It is a rare book which combines real humour with sustained intellectual inquiry.
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