...The Surgeon of Crowthorne

by Simon Winchester

I finished reading this yesterday. It is an interesting and entertaining story with a touch too much overwriting - a horse and cart does not just go down the lane, the horses hooves spark off the cobblestones lighting up the surrounding scene like lightning.
Half the fun of this book is seeing how many times the author uses the phrase "what could have happened was..." before launching into a lurid and sensationally fictional tale which is ended with "but that was not what happened" or "but nobody knows what really happened", biography indeed!
I am intrigued about the author's writing style in his other books.