![]() ![]() ![]() Will the new tools of the age-reason and science and scepticism-be enough to save him? Desperate to understand his own deviant desires before they derail his career and drive him mad, Tristan sifts through his childhood memories, memories that are informed by dark superstitions about faeries and goblins and shape-shifting gypsies. His equally strong and far more unpredictable obsession is the nature of pain, and causing it. His obsession is the nature of pain, and preventing it during medical procedures. ![]() It will be a momentous year for the cultured and intellectually ambitious Mr Hart, who, as well as being a student of Locke and Descartes and a promising young physician, is also, alas, a psychopath. The year is 1751, and Mr Hart leaves his Berkshire home for London to lodge with his father's friend, the novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding, and study medicine at the great hospital of University College. Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. An explosive and daring debut novel set during the Enlightenment that tells the tale of a promising young surgeon-in-training whose study of anatomy is deeply complicated by his uncontrollable sadistic tendencies. ![]()
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