My name is Mary Sutter
By: Robin Oliveira
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780750535700
Subjects: Midwives; Medical care; Fiction; Surgeons; History
Description: Eager to escape the pains of a broken heart, Mary travels to Washington to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded. Working in the heart of the battlefields, performing in makeshift operating theatres, she comes under the guidance of William Stipp and James Blevens, two surgeons who unwittingly fall in love with Mary's courage and stubbornness. Resisting her mother's pleas to return home - Mary chases her ambition to become a surgeon in the desperately overwhelmed hospitals of the capital.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Viking, 2010; London: Fig Tree, 2011.