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Reviewed on August 1, 2017 | Adult Books 4 Teens
First-year medical student Sarah Gilchrist, one of her school's 12 newly admitted women, spends her off-duty time treating the poor at an infirmary nestled in the dark, damp backstreets of 1892 Edinburgh. Disease, prostitution, gambling, and drugs flourish here, but Sarah finds her calling in helping young women caught in the depths of poverty. In school one day, Sarah recognizes the body of Lucy, one of her patients, on the dissecting table. Certain that Lucy was ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More