In a world where the question ‘Who are you wearing?’ has become the new normal, we decided to ask the question ‘What are you reading?’ instead. Broadcaster Noelle McCarthy shares two of her most recent reads in our regular #WIRT series.
Two of the interviews on Summer Noelle this year
My other stand-out book of the summer was Henry Marsh's Do No Harm. Marsh is a brain surgeon, mostly retired now except for the charity work he does in Ukraine and Nepal. In his day he was one of the most prominent surgeons in the UK, now he's having an unlikely second act as a bestselling author and media star. His fellow bestseller, the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard recently followed him to Albania for a New York Times profile The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery. It's a magnificent read, but not as good as Marsh's book, which is an extraordinary revealing, unflinchingly honest account of a life spent cutting into peoples brains, and the terrible consequences when surgery goes wrong.
