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Sep 20, 2022 · A young Scottish doctor, caught stealing and using opioids, is deemed fit to return to practice and lands in St. Luke’s—one of London’s roughest hospitals and a place that’s desperately in need of staff. Author Stephenson was trained as a doctor, and this book goes deeply—and fascinatingly—into life in the hospital.
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Sep 16, 2022 · A novel that can make you giggle and wince and think and feel a degree of righteous indignation in quite an achievement. It is worth observing that it is set rather carefully in 1999 and 2000 ...
Oct 21, 2022 · In Simon Stephenson’s new novel, “Sometimes People Die,” patients at a London hospital are dying at a rapid clip — especially ones who shouldn’t be. What to Read 21st Century’s Best Books
’Simon Stephenson’s darkly hilarious mystery, Sometimes People Die, harks back to classic English satire a la Kingsley Amis or Evelyn Waugh, perfectly updating their sarcastic yet somehow still endearing tone for modern-day readers…..With ten months of 2022 behind us, I am confident this will be a (or perhaps the) best book of the year for me.’
A triumph, Sometimes People Die wouldn’t be the easiest book to transfer to the screen, but I’m hoping Stephenson himself will accept the challenge. ‘Sometimes People Die’ by Simon Stephenson is published by HarperCollins, £14.99 hardback. Tags Crime Fiction Sarah Morgan. A genuine old school page-turner, Sometimes People Die is a ...
Sep 11, 2022 · Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson Summary: [A] thriller from [an] ex-doctor about a spate of mysterious deaths in a beleaguered hospital. Insightful on addiction and doctors' lives, it reads almost like a comic medical memoir – with murder thrown in ’The Bookseller The year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for ...
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Sep 21, 2022 · Book Review: Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson. The year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Luke’s. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, over-worked staff and ...
