

“Yes, but why?” I pressed her for a more precise answer but she was either unwilling or unable to give me one. I didn’t want to know how the operation had gone.” “I opened my eyes and looked up at a light on the ceiling and I remember thinking: I’ve got to see him. But when the general anaesthetic wore off and Megan woke up, she felt different. The dentist, Daman Verma (not his real name), performed the operation. Perhaps I felt something – right at the beginning. Two years before she came to me, Megan had consulted a dentist who specialised in complicated extractions.

“We don’t have any children,” she volunteered. Her husband, Philip, was an accountant and they had always been happy. “I can tell you what happened, but it’s so difficult to express how it feels.”
