As I eagerly await 91av‘s next book club pick, I’ve been reading a book that has languished on my shelves for years. I wish it hadn’t. , by science journalist David Adam, is an account of living with obsessive compulsive disorder. For him, and many others in the 1980s and 90s, it presented as an intense fear of getting AIDS. Adam navigates the topic so skilfully you never feel you’re getting to the “science bit”.
I’ve also been gripped by , a podcast about a fertility clinic where women had their eggs extracted without painkillers, after a nurse swapped fentanyl for saline. The series looks at perpetrator psychology, but it’s really about the shocking way the women’s excruciating pain was dismissed.
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On a lighter note, I took my family to the in York, UK (pictured above). What a treat! My children went wild, but we missed the opening of an interactive gallery, so we’ll just have to return.
Catherine de Lange
Magazine editor
London
