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Scar Tissue (novel) read but worth it.” A review in Literature Annotations pointed out: “A hauntingly beautiful narrative, written on several levels from flashback, to pop-scientific journalism (including allusions to the writings of Oliver Sacks), to academic speeches and essays on the nature of death, composed by the protagonist for his students, public, and publishers.” "The Sunday Telegraph" said that "Scar Tissue" was “moving and intellectually challenging. The "New Statesman" claimed that “no recent British novel has traversed the world of reason and emotion, the human presence and its annihilation, so effectively and directly.” According to Connor Taylor, “this novel seems to exhibit