Michael Levitt is a practising surgeon and hospital administrator. He grew up, was educated and continues to live and work in Perth, Western Australia. He is married and has three adult children and three grandchildren.
Michael has been an avid art collector for many years and has written numerous pieces for magazines, newspapers and exhibition catalogues. He is the author of three books dealing with health non-fiction and published his first work of fiction, The Gallerist, in 2022. In January 2023, he was awarded an AM for services to medical administration and to Australian professional bodies.
Having relocated to Perth, cancer surgeon Aresh Mehta is preparing to settle down in life. Travelling with him is an unsigned painting that he came across – and kept – more than a decade earlier. Haunted by the violent scene it depicts, Aresh decides that the time has come for him to find out wh...