UNITED KINGDOM / AGILITYPR.NEWS / August 05, 2026 / From childhood cross‑country races to pounding the roads as an adult, Liz has always run. It is the one constant she can control—the place where breath, movement, and memory come together. In Fractured Healer, Cheshire-based physiotherapist and author Dr Chris Norris explores how running becomes not just exercise, but a means of recovery.

Liz is a successful surgeon with a carefully guarded personal life. When she is forced to confront a traumatic event from a university party twenty years earlier, the emotional distance she has maintained through discipline and achievement begins to unravel. She learns that self-healing like running, requires persistence, and the courage to keep going.

Blending love, regret, humour, and the loneliness of midlife, Fractured Healer tells a deeply human story of self‑empowerment. Liz’s relationships highlight how guilt and silence shape identity, and how recovery is rarely a straight path.

Rather than a hospital‑based medical novel, Fractured Healer focuses on emotional reconstruction: rebuilding self‑esteem and learning to live with vulnerability. Drawing on over forty years as a physiotherapist, teacher, and author of fourteen non-fiction books, Norris brings subtle medical insight and psychological realism to the narrative.

Key themes include:

• Running as a metaphor for healing and reclaiming control
• Emotional realism with flawed, deeply relatable characters
• The psychological impact of trauma and its aftermath
• Rebuilding identity with hope, humour, and connection

“Having spent forty years treating people and seeing remarkable results when they draw on their inner strength, I wanted to tell a story about resilience,” says Dr Chris Norris. “Each of us is knocked down by life—but we can get back up again.”

Publication details

ISBN: 9781836283416 Paperback: £12.99

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fractured-Healer-Chris-Norris/dp/1836283415

https://www.waterstones.com/book/fractured-healer/chris-norris/9781836283416

https://chrisnorrisauthor.co.uk/