Under the knife

Alexander Otto has it all - eminence as a surgeon, admiring colleagues, a loving family. Yet from the opening lines of this modern tragedy, he is a man on the run. What secrets lie beneath the successful veneer of Alexander Otto's life?Edwina Frye is Otto's biographer, she is also having an affair with him. Her own life is a false trail of masks and deceptions and she's and expert at finding them in others. As she writes the official biography, she writes a parallel life of Alexander which develops into a disturbing fiction of betrayal and revenge.Under the Knifedoes not take comfortable sides as it swings between the slippery poles of truth and fiction, love and obsession, resplendent public achievements and unpardonable private transgressions.Goldsmith, Andrea is the author of 'Under the knife' with ISBN 9781864484502 and ISBN 1864484500.