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Prizes

On sale

25th April 2013

Price: £10.99

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444768466

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In the arena of life and death, the world’s most brilliant doctors and scientists vie desperately – and ruthlessly – for the ultimate prize: the Nobel.

Adam Coopersmith is a gifted and compassionate physician. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, he meets Anya, a Russian émigrée, and falls in love for the first time – only to have his career nearly destroyed.

Sandy Raven is a cutting-edge researcher whose devotion is matched only by his genius. Yet as he makes his greatest discovery, he experiences his most profound betrayal. Will he choose to live a lie or abandon his dream to seek new, more worldly prizes?

Isabel da Costa. A child prodigy, she owes all her success to her father, but though she becomes a brilliant physicist, she can’t capture her lost childhood. Ultimately she is torn between her father and the young man who holds the key to her happiness, until a shocking revelation explodes her world.

Reviews

<i>Sunday Telegraph</i>
PRIZES is guaranteed to make readers laugh and cry
<i>The Times</i>
Nobel minds, ignoble lives . . . The world of scientific research is the background for Erich Segal's blockbuster . . . an entertaining read.