Description
Sarah Gilchrist has fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1882, the first year it admits women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself: professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, and female peers who will do anything to avoid being associated with a fallen woman.
Desperate for a proper education, Sarah turns to one of the city's ramshackle charitable hospitals for additional training. The St Giles' Infirmary for Women ministers to the downtrodden and drunk, the thieves and whores with nowhere else to go. She learns a great deal there, but when one of Sarah's patients turns up in the university dissecting room as a battered corpse, Sarah finds herself drawn into a murky underworld of bribery, brothels, and body snatchers.
Sarah is determined to find out what happened to Lucy and bring those responsible for her death to justice. But as she searches for answers in Edinburgh's dank alleyways, bawdy houses and fight clubs, Sarah comes closer and closer to uncovering one of Edinburgh's most lucrative trades, and, in doing so, puts her own life at risk...
Author: Kaite Welsh
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 08/26/2019
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781681776668
ISBN10: 1681776669
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | International Crime & Mystery
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