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And a few moments later a voice next to us describes another case: "Six-year-old girl, she was hit by an electric bike, she has a closed tib/fib fracture."

"Perhaps the starkest," Dr Rogers said, were her attempts to explain the cancer fib.

But Ulman has strung together a net of interesting observations: glances, insults, mistaken presumptions and gaslighting fibs.

Her living voice — her wit and insecurities, her vanities and fibs, the whole of her mind as she herself came to know it.

This country tells itself a lot of fibs about how good and great it is — but there are people who don’t just believe them, but devote their lives to making them come true.