An impassioned Civil War-era novel of a brilliant young New York midwife with surgeon aspirations. Despite facing endless challenges and naysayers in her struggle to expand her knowledge of medicine, Mary defies the odds and those that oppose her, but not without countless hardships and losses al...
My dearest M, Are you alone? D She paid the urchin a sou to return her brief answer. Oui. Less than half an hour later, Degas was knocking at the door of her studio, holding the hand of a little girl he hoisted into his arms ...