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Carolyn Allen
Carolyn Ann Allen is a midwife, counsellor and therapist who helped introduce the work of American psychologist Carl Rogers to the UK. She is also an artist who painted an eighty foot mural of the River Thames in Dolphin Square, London, and who has exhibited in both the UK and Australia, a pianist and a jazz singer and, more unusually, through her interest in physics and astrology, is the local sightings officer for a Brisbane UFO organisation.
'Knifing the Famous!'   An intimate portrait of John Watson John Watson was a pioneer British plastic/reconstructive surgeon, operating originally on 'The Guineapigs' - pilots who had been shot down in flames during WW2 and grossly disfigured - who rose to the top of his field with clients ranging from Lord Lucan and a wife of the Kray Brothers, to Lady Churchill and members of the Royal Household. This
is an intimate, emotionally complex, portrait of an archetypal man of his generation who was proud, ambitious, dutiful and
enquiring, and yet ultimately private and even secretive, as recorded from the inside in his own words, and from the outside
as he was observed by his daughter Carolyn Ann Allen, full of sharp, funny and extraordinary anecdotes as he lived under the
shadow of one immense tragedy and one equally towering question - did he operate on Lord Lucan a second time immediately before
he disappeared after the murder of his children's nanny Sandra Rivett?
Comment from
Tim Roux, Managing Editor of Night Publishing: The joy
of the book is how well Carolyn Allen captures him as a person - and indeed how well he captures himself - and that it is
full of quirky little stories which I found endearing, intriguing and constantly surprising. A wonderful book. You almost
feel like you have sat for hours talking with John Watson too which must have been a truly entertaining experience as he was
a superb raconteur.
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