Book review: The ways our genes shape our lives explored

Edwin Kirk's The Boy Who Wasn't Short attempts to humanise and popularise a challenging subject matter

With great precision and detail, Dr Edwin Kirk explores the unexpected ways in which our genes shape our lives. 

This admirable but extremely difficult book attempts to humanise and popularise a challenging subject matter. With great precision and detail, Dr Kirk explores the unexpected ways in which our genes shape our lives. 

A renowned geneticist, Kirk is also a capable writer. He is humorous, modest, insightful, and humane. However for a lay reader without a decent knowledge of science, this is a very difficult read.