Two women in a room. One is bleeding to death. The other just sits back & watches. For both there is everything to lose. Surgeons are meant to save lives but Nancy is a special kind of surgeon. Doctors are meant to be good at reporting the truth but Nancy's is an untellable story. A mistake made in the operating theatre changes all of this. Summoned to explain herself to a tribunal appointed by the General Medical Council Nancy is forced to consider what it means to be a doctor who has killed as well as cured. & to realise that her own redemption can only come through telling a tale that nobody wants to hear. Gabriel Weston author of the acclaimed Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story" winner of the 2010 PEN/ Ackerley Prize has written an extraordinarily moving & powerful novel about a female doctor who performs abortions."