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Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.
Through 24 intriguing, never-before-told cases, Britain's top forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd takes us on a journey through life in death. From old to young, murder to misadventure, and from illness to accidental death, each body can reveal something- about human development, about mortality, about its owner's life story, and even about Shepherd himself.
From the bestselling author of Unnatural Causes comes a powerful, moving and above all reassuring book uncovering the secrets of death - how to understand it, postpone it, and, when our time comes (as it must), how to embrace it as the last great adventure.
Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.
Through 24 intriguing, never-before-told cases, Britain's top forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd takes us on a journey through life in death. From old to young, murder to misadventure, and from illness to accidental death, each body can reveal something- about human development, about mortality, about its owner's life story, and even about Shepherd himself.
From the bestselling author of Unnatural Causes comes a powerful, moving and above all reassuring book uncovering the secrets of death - how to understand it, postpone it, and, when our time comes (as it must), how to embrace it as the last great adventure.
Richard Shepherd was born in West London but grew up in Watford. He
was introduced to a medical textbook smuggled into the classroom by
a friend which opened his eyes to the world of crime and murder,
setting him on a lifelong quest to understand death in its many
forms. He trained as a doctor at St George's Hospital medical
school at Hyde Park Corner, qualifying in 1977 and then completed
his postgraduate training as a forensic pathologist in 1987. He
immediately joined what was then the elite forensic department at
Guy's Hospital.
He has been involved nationally and internationally in the forensic
investigation of thousands of deaths from unnatural causes, from
headline-making murders to mass natural disasters.
This sequel is more ruminative, more meditative . . . Full of sharp
observations about what life and death do to the human body
*The Times, A BOOK OF THE YEAR*
Enlightening, strangely uplifting . . . Shepherd's final chapter on
death itself is a meditation of great beauty and light which puts
all the darkness of the previous pages into perspective
*Daily Mail*
Each chapter is like a finely crafted detective story in which he
expands on the causes of death as revealed by the post mortem, or
the hidden reasons that precipitated it. Some are ordinary, others
extraordinary. Shepherd writes beautifully, and despite its
subject, the book is very funny in parts
*Daily Telegraph*
Deeply insightful . . . Shepherd is unflinching in his
self-dissection
*The Times*
Fascinating
*Daily Express*
Fascinating. He has the ability to examine himself and other people
with the same forensic eye that he applies to corpses - one of the
reasons why his books feel so life-enhancing
*Daily Telegraph*
Grippingly elegiac yet wonderfully life-affirming, full of pithy
observations about the inexorability of death and the marvels of
existence
*Daily Express*
Praise for Dr Richard Shepherd
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One of the most fascinating books I have read in a long time.
Engrossing, a haunting page-turner. A book I could not put down
*The Times*
Heart-wrenchingly honest
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