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Ingenious Pain: the extraordinary prize-winning debut

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award

'Astoundingly good' The Times

'Dazzling' Observer

'Timeless' Spectator

At the dawn of the Enlightenment, a man is born unable to feel pain.

A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian society to become a brilliant surgeon. Yet as a human being he fails, for he can no more feel love and compassion than pain.

Until, en route to St Petersburg to inoculate the Empress Catherine, he meets his nemesis and saviour.

Praise for Andrew Miller

'Andrew Miller's writing is a source of wonder and delight' Hilary Mantel

'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind' Sunday Times

'One of the best writers at work today' Telegraph

'A wonderful storyteller' Spectator

'One of those rare novelists who can rock up in any time and place and convincingly inhabit that particular historical moment' The Times

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• Publication Date: May 8, 2006
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