num_pages: 352
description: Beginning in Cork Ireland the novel recounts Jonathan Mirandus Perrys journey from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for family but Perry soon embraced the new-found freedom of living life as a man. From brilliant medical student in Edinburgh and London to eligible bachelor and quick-tempered physician in Cape Town Dr. Perry thrived. When he befriended the aristocratic Cape Governor the doctor rose to the pinnacle of society before the two were publicly accused of a homosexual affair that scandalized the colonies and nearly cost them their lives.E. J. Levys enthralling novel inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry brings this captivating character vividly alive.
language: English
title: The Cape Doctor
publisher: Little, Brown and Company