A Mistake

Now a major motion picture written and directed by Christine Jeffs, featuring Elizabeth Banks. Elizabeth Taylor is a surgeon at a city hospital, a gifted, driven and rare woman excelling in a male-dominated culture. One day, while operating on a young woman in a critical condition, something goes gravely wrong. A Mistake is a compelling story of human fallibility, and the dangerous hunger for black and white answers in a world of xponential complication and nuance. 'A masterful dissection of truth and fallibility, hubris and high-minded sexism, in the form of a literary thriller' - 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 'A masterpiece which feels more like a body than a book - the life pumps and glugs and flexes inside its pages' -Pip Adam 'Razor sharp and compelling' -Kiran Dass

Carl Shukeris a former editor at the British Medical Journal and currently managerof scientific publications at Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality and SafetyCommission. He is the author of six novels – The Method Actors (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005), winner of the Prize in Modern Letters in 2006; The Lazy Boys (Counterpoint & Penguin, 2006); Three Novellas for a Novel (2008; Mansfield Road Press, 2011), Anti Lebanon (Counterpoint, 2013), A Mistake (Te Herenga Waka University Press & Counterpoint, 2019), which has been adapted for film, and The Royal Free(Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024 & Counterpoint, 2025). Helives in Wellington with his wife Anna Smaill and their two children.

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