Fifty Beating Wonders
A doctor's search for meaning and the miraculous in the Emergency Room
$32.22
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2026
Summary
Like When Breath Becomes Air, Being Mortal, and The Emperor of All Maladies, Fifty Beating Wonders is a stunning book about the magnificent complexity of the human body and the miracle of being human. It is absorbing, uplifting, moving, and celebratory – a wonder indeed.
The emergency department—loud, chaotic, and heaving with broken bodies—seems an unlikely place to find marvelment. But what if there was a seam of joy, of wonder, of fascination run…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781460770320 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1460770323 |
| Author: | Michelle Johnston |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2026 |
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Michelle Johnston
Michelle Johnston is an author and an emergency physician. She is a Staff Specialist at the Royal Perth Hospital Emergency Department, a busy inner-city trauma centre where she works as both clinician and teacher.
Her first novel, Dustfall, was published in February 2018 and shortlisted for the MUD Literary Prize for a debut novel in 2019. Her second novel, Tiny Uncertain Miracles, was published in 2022.
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