Kate Edgar’s compilation paints a detailed portrait of a sometimes shy, uncertain, excitable human who was also a deeply compassionate and open-hearted outsider
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A recurrent psychological theme is what Sacks describes as “abandonment”. At the tender age of six, Sacks was evacuated from London to a boarding school in the countryside at the outbreak of the second World War. He recounts in his memoir the “double abandonment” when, at 18, he admitted his homosexuality; his mother then described him as “an abomination”.
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