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  PHILIP BLACKMORE, Catholic Herald

  ‘Snappy and sharp, picaresque but scholarly; it’s almost a crime that so heinous a disease should be treated to so grand a biography’

  Kirkus Reviews

  ‘Fascinating … [Rocco] writes beautifully, her personal anecdotes intertwining with a fast-paced historical survey of the disease and the quest for a cure. And it is an exciting story, rich in suffering, conflict, bravery, curiosity, bigotry, inventiveness, greed – you name it … The Miraculous Fever-Tree is lovingly researched and written. It is the kind of book that opens up exciting new worlds of knowledge’

  ANNA PATERSON, Scotland on Sunday

  ‘This is an exceedingly accomplished piece of work, ranging over four centuries and five continents, involving too the history of Rocco’s own family, long entwined with the disease … The book is written with immense verve and confidence, in a prose that succeeds in being both crisp and fluent. [Rocco has gathered], from a multitude of sources, fascinating material that will be new to most readers and weaves it into a gripping and highly readable tale.’

  DEREK BICKERTON, New York Times

  ‘Lively, elegantly written and often fascinating’

  JEREMY GAVRON, Evening Standard

  ‘Rocco maintains a perfect balance between narrative and technical detail, compressing 400 years into an admirably precise and informative account’

  CHRIS POWER, The Times

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