Berkley
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
Featuring: Anna Savard; Anthony Comstock; Sophie
752 pages ISBN: 0425271811 EAN: 9780425271810 Kindle: B00SI027PK Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The international bestselling author of Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return witha remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transcendent power of courage and loveโฆ
The year is 1883, and in New York City, itโs a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophieโboth graduates of the Womanโs Medical Schoolโtreat the cityโs most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything theyโve strived for in jeopardy.
Anna's work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life.
For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctorโand thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him.
With its vivid depictions of old New York and its enormously appealing characters, The Gilded Hour is a captivating, emotionally gripping novel that proves Sara Donati is an author at the height of her powers.
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