- New Zealand Book Award for Fiction 2020 · Shortlist
A Mistake
A Mistake
Carl Shuker (born 1974)
English editions
Written in EnglishA Mistake
Counterpoint · United States · 29 August 2023 · Paperback · 192 pages
A Mistake
Victoria University Press · New Zealand · March 2019 · Paperback
A Mistake
Counterpoint · United States · September 2019 · Hardcover · 192 pages
A Mistake
Te Herenga Waka University Press · New Zealand · 10 October 2024 · Paperback · 184 pages
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Elizabeth Taylor is a general surgeon in Wellington's public health system, brilliant, demanding and one of few women at her level in a culture run by men. Operating in an emergency on Lisa, a young woman who is gravely ill, with her trainee Richard assisting, she finds widespread infection, and the patient dies soon afterwards. At the same time the government plans to publish each surgeon's mortality figures, a scheme Elizabeth has attacked in print. After she takes responsibility at a tense meeting she is put on restricted duties, and she pours her anger into renovating her house while relationships around her, including a secret one with a nurse, Robin, begin to break. The novel weighs human error against the demand for simple answers.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Set in
- New Zealand
- First published
- 2019
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
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9781776562145 (Victoria University Press, New Zealand)
9781640092495 (Counterpoint, United States)
9781640096554 (Counterpoint, United States)
9781776922161 (Te Herenga Waka University Press, New Zealand)