What Is a Doctor? is the newest book from UEA alumnus Dr. Phil Whitaker and is published by Canongate this week. Phil graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1996 and published his first novel Eclipse of the Sun in 1997. This went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. His second novel Triangulation was the winner of the 2000 Encore Award. The Face was published in 2004, Freak of Nature in 2007, Sister Sebastian’s Library in 2016, Chicken Unga Fever: Stories from the medical frontline in 2018, and You in 2018. He writes a fortnightly column on health matters for the New Statesman and divides his time between writing and working as a general practitioner.
What Is a Doctor? by Dr. Phil Whitaker
