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I have the sort of odd brain that is always creeping up on a new book. You’ve been praised for your high style but you’ve also recognised the extreme eloquence of abuse victims.

The book was by a magazine journalist, Michael Paterniti, who drove cross-country with the pathologist who stole parts of Einstein’s brain after performing the autopsy in 1955.