Grace Breen has studied medicine to make herself useful, and at Jocelyn’s, a half-finished resort hotel on a bold promontory of the New England coast, she gets her first real patient. Between a flighty friend’s illness, a condescending older physician and an affable young admirer, she must decide what her profession and her heart are worth.
A sharp early realist novel about a woman in medicine, by the champion of American realism. Download the free EPUB.