Rebecca Abrams

Touching Distance

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ISBN 13:
9781447236740
author:
Rebecca Abrams
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Picador
language:
English
Publication Year:
2012
Pages:
32
Dimensions:
19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
Genre:
Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, ,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 5 working days
£13.58

Description

A mysterious disease strikes a small town in Scotland, claiming the lives of every newly delivered mother for miles around. Childbed fever, a deadly and baffling illness with no known cause or cure, has arrived. Physician Alec Gordon is determined to find solutions to save his patients' lives. However, as he delves deeper into the mystery, his wife Elizabeth becomes increasingly lost in her past, haunted by terrifying memories of her childhood. The boundaries between reason and passion are tested in this period of world history. Based on a true story, Touching Distance is a historical novel that explores the tragic limitations of knowledge and the deep-seated tension between reason and passion during the Age of Enlightenment.

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