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Soho Press
June 2011
On Sale: June 7, 2011
384 pages
ISBN: 1569479453
EAN: 9781569479452
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Women's Fiction Historical | Literature and Fiction
Agnes White is fascinated by the "wrong" things–microscopes,
dissections, and anatomy. A lonely orphan raised by her prim
grandmother at the turn of the 20th century, Agnes is
haunted by her vague memories of her father, a renowned
Montreal physician who disappeared after being accused of
his sister's murder. Agnes is determined to follow in his
footsteps as a doctor, even though medical schools in Canada
are still closed to women. Despite resistance at every turn,
she not only becomes a doctor but a world-renowned
specialist of the human heart. But even as her professional
star rises, her life is solitary and her happiness remains
incomplete because of her missing father. One of the only
clues in her quest to find him is a strange, misshapen heart
that teaches her an invaluable lesson about love. Inspired
by the career of Maude Abbott, one of Canada's first female
physicians, The Heart Specialist is the story of how one
celebrated expert on the human heart must learn to
understand her own.
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