Darcie is a woman in her early 20s with migraine, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, anorexia, irritable bowel syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, autism, attention ...

The year is 1828. Anaesthesia is yet to be invented and tethered to an operating table in the centre of a crowded, putrid theatre at Guy’s Hospital, a patient screams at his surgeon to stop the ...