Intuition
Allegra Goodman

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Co-directors of a cancer research lab in Boston, Sandy Glass is a charismatic publicity-seeking doctor, Marion Mendelssohn an idealistic and rigorous scientist. As mentors and supervisors to their young protégés, they demand dedication and respect in a competitive environment where funding is scarce and results elusive. So, when the experiments of Cliff Bannaker, one of the youngest members of the team, begin to produce encouraging results, the entire lab becomes giddy with newfound expectation.

But jealousy soon breeds suspicion and Cliff’s colleague – and girlfriend – Robin Decker begins to suspect the unthinkable: that his findings are fraudulent. As Robin makes her private doubts public and Cliff maintains his innocence, a life-changing controversy engulfs the lab and everyone in it…

Allegra Goodman

has had fiction published in the New Yorker and Best American Short Stories edited by Salman Rushdie. Her previous books include Kaaterskill Falls (shortlisted for the US National Book Award) and The Family Markowitz. Intuition is her first novel to be published in the UK. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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