The royal free : a novel

"James Ballard is a recently widowed single father to a baby daughter. And he is a copy editor tasked with saving the Royal London Journal of Medicine from the mistakes no one else notices -- misplaced apostrophes, Freudian misspellings, the wrong influenza strain. This job is utterly boring but -- he tells himself -- totally crucial. The Royal London is a stronghold of care for the human body and a bastion of humanism in a disintegrating world....