Musicophilia
04 September 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. Among them: a surgeon who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes obsessed with Chopin; people with ‘amusia’, to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of poets and pans; and a man whose memory spans...
Details
04 September 2025448 pages
9781035068371Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Fascinating. Music, as Sacks explains, “can pierce the heart directly”. And this is the truth that he so brilliantly focuses upon – that music saves, consoles and nourishes us.Daily Mail
An elegantly outlined series of case studies . . . which reveal the depth to which music grips so many people.Observer
A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wondersDaily Telegraph
