On Thursday 21 July, Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield will be on the Radio 2 Fact not Fiction Book Club to discuss their book, Dr James Barry.
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Dr James Barry
Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, lady killer, eccentric. Dr James Barry performed the first Caesarean in Africa, was deported from St Helena and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down in the Crimea. At home, he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and half a dozen small terriers. Long ago, in another life, he had also been a mother.
This is the amazing story of Margaret Ann Bulkey, the young woman who broke the unwritten rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected surgeons of the century. Her life became one long, audacious act of deception that saw her rise to positions no woman had ever reached before, but it also left her isolated, perhaps even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved.
Michael du Preez was born and raised in Cape Town. He graduated from medical school in 1958, and went on to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Since retiring in 2001, he has spent over a decade researching the life of Dr James Barry, and has published several scholarly papers about Barry in medical journals. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Jeremy Dronfield is a writer, biographer and novelist. He lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
