Gavin Francis is a general physician with more than 30 years of training and practice in medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He is also an award-winning writer and a contributor to the Guardian, Times, New York Review of Books, Granta, and the London Review of Books. He’s authored eight books, including Empire Antarctica, Adventures in Human Being, and Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change, which was a book of the year in the Sunday Times. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
"Francis sheds nuanced light on an often fraught and private
experience, and encourages readers to reimagine illnesses as
'stories of the mind and body' because 'within limits, stories can
be rewritten.' Those on the mend may gain the most, but readers of
all stripes will find wisdom here." –Publishers Weekly, starred
review
“Recovery is an essential book for our times, full of wisdom,
compassion and sound advice. Every patient needs a copy of this
gem.” –Katherine May, author of Wintering and Enchantment
"Healing can be maddeningly slow work, Gavin Francis recognizes,
but it offers us the opportunity to live differently. Beyond the
fantasy of the quick and easy cure is the reality of living with
and through our physical limitations, which requires creativity.
Recovery offers inspiration and advice for practicing this lost
art. Throughout, Francis is alert to the political and economic
forces that undermine our efforts." –Eula Biss, author of Having
and Being Had and On Immunity
“We spend too much time thinking about illness and hardly enough
thinking about recovery and recuperation. Gavin Francis’s literary
talent combined with his years as a seasoned medical practitioner
make Recovery a unique and delightful read.” –Abraham Verghese,
author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone
"Recovery is an excellent book about the long, difficult, and often
interesting way back from illness to health. Gavin Francis writes
with clinical wisdom and grace about doctors and patients—their
expectations, strengths, and vulnerabilities—and suggests ways to
navigate and learn from convalescence.” –Kay Redfield Jamison,
Ph.D., Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and Professor of
Psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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