When Words and Science Meet - All in the Mind at the Sydney Writers' Festival

Stefan Merrill Block's debut novel, The Story of Forgetting, is a clever tale about familial Alzheimer's disease. Spanning time and place, it's the surprising story of a gene, a fantasy land where memory is absent, a hunchback, and one boy's quest to understand the disease stealing his mother's mind. And, Canadian emergency physician Dr Vincent Lam takes us inside the lives of four young doctors in his compelling debut, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. They join Natasha Mitchell in discussion from the 2008 Sydney Writers' Festival.