Novel set in 1950s HOLLYWOOD and EALING (London)
The Healing Knife
Location(s): France, London
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Present
To Rachel Keyte death is the enemy. The early loss of her beloved father from heart failure ignited a single-minded determination in her: to save as many patients as she can, and to become a consultant before the age of forty. Everything else; friendship, love, empathy; is sacrificed to her obsession.
Now Rachel’s surgical skills are twelve-year-old Craig’s only hope for a normal life. His mother Eve holds a deep distrust of doctors, and her son is all she has. Reluctantly, she agrees for the operation to go ahead. But surgery is never predictable, nor is a devastated mother’s terrifying reaction. Eve, it seems, wants a life for a life…
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