"A Vast Masquerade"

Prone to quarrel-picking and partial to red-heeled, thigh-high boots paired with an outsized dress sword, the tyrannical army surgeon Dr. James Barry had, it seems, a whole society full of conspirators.

Review of Michael du Preez's and Jeremy Dronfield's Dr. James Barry in the London Review of Books, 2 March 2017.

Deborah