The Empathy Problem by Gavin Extence - ISBN: 9781473605244
Paperback
Terminal illness forces a ruthless banker to confront empathy.

The Empathy Problem

It's never too late to change your life

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    12 June 2018

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Summary

Driven by money, power and success, Gabriel has worked ruthlessly to get to the very top of the banking game. He’s not going to let the inconvenience of a terminal brain tumour get in his way.

But the tumour has other ideas. As it grows, it appears to be doing strange things to Gabriel’s personality. Whether he likes it or not, he seems to be becoming less selfish, less mercenary, less unlikeable.

Once he could dismiss the rest of humanity as irrelevant. Now he’s …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473605244
ISBN-10:1473605245
Author:Gavin Extence
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:12 June 2018
Weight:300g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 28mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Warm and funny and tragic and uplifting all in one. Extence should be on everyone’s radar

Praise for Gavin Extence’s previous novels:

’[Extence] captures how the illness feels from the inside with sensitivity and sparkling humour. In Abby he has created a warm, funny and relatable heroine’ - Daily Express

The quality of [Extence’s] writing is high and often hilarious - Irish Daily Mail

‘Insightful and sensitive, Extence describes with the lightest of touches what it’s like to live with bipolar’ - Sunday Express

‘Extence really brings Abby to life in this honest, uequivocal narrative…There is something curiously cathartic about this book, as well as having the bravery, touching honesty and memorable protagonist that Extence is making his trademark’ - Heat

‘Author Gavin Extence’s funny and dark second novel is your commute’s saviour’ - Stylist

‘A book of substance. The characters will stay with you’

Praise for Gavin Extence’s previous novels - -

‘If we do a better book in our book club this year we’ll have done very well. I’m a huge fan of this book… I love it’

About The Author

Gavin Extence

Gavin Extence lives in Sheffield with his wife, children and cat. He has written two previous novels, THE UNIVERSE VERSUS ALEX WOODS and THE MIRROR WORLD OF MELODY BLACK. His third novel THE EMPATHY PROBLEM publishes in August 2016.

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