Stories don't come any more powerful than this. This is an important book that lives up to the expectations of its evocative title and dramatic cover. Fleshmarket It is Edinburgh, 1822, and young Robbie is eight years old when he witnesses his mothers pain and subsequent death from an operation. Fleshmarket is well and truly a book that thrills, but behind the rip-roaring plot there is a painful truth that none of us should ever forget. In the startling introduction to her story, Morgan, an uncompromising writer who doesn't believe in holding back, takes you straight to the painful centre of what is to follow and leaves you gasping. Nicola Morgan is a fine writer.' - David Almond 20030217 Novel beginnings are seldom more dramatic or more grim than the first 10 pages of Nicola Morgan's Fleshmarket. The Sunday Telegraph 20031201 'A dramatic and thought-provoking book. a book that deserves attention - The Bookseller 20030801 A gripping and intelligent read. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified.

The Glasgow Herald 20031001 Outstanding. Lindsey Fraser This book grabs you and never lets you go. Fleshmarket is a tour de force, from its attention-grabbing prologue onwards.

Having watched his mother die in agony from infection following a mastectomy performed without anesthesia, Robbie conceives a violent hatred for the surgeon, Robert Knox. Morgan is a confident, courageous and honest writer. 10, 2004 A psychological study made stomach-churningly intense by its squalid 19th-century setting and gruesome historical milieu. Lives were cheap, both within and out of the medical faculty. She is the author of the novels Mondays Are Red and Fleshmarket. Her descriptions of Edinburgh's Old Town, decaying, corrupt and dangerous, are extraordinarily vivid. Nicola Morgan lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has written over 50 nonfiction childrens books. Set in Edinburgh at a time in which the city was at the vanguard of medical advance, Morgan reveals the deep moral dilemmas that accompanied meaningful research at the time. At its heart is a young man's obsession with the mother he lost under horrendous, bizarre circumstances. This is a tough thriller, a delicate love story and a powerfully evocative historical novel.

Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan