The Good Doctor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE

'Should have won the Booker.' -- Norman Lebrecht, Books of the Year * Evening Standard * 'As good as Graham Greene' -- Joan Bakewell * Sunday Times * 'A gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth and Damon Galgut's extraordinary vision' -- Julie Wheelwright * Independent * 'A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel' -- Christopher Hope * Guardian * 'His sentences have such hypnotic power that once started, this novel is very hard to put down' -- Russell Celyn Jones * The Times * 'A latter day Heart of Darkness' -- Michael Arditti * Daily Mail * 'The bold, fresh voice of South African fiction' * Observer *

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa 'The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa's transition... by a novelist of great and growing power.' -- Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital postingfull of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present.