To kill or cure
By: Susanna Gregory.
Series: The Matthew Bartholomew series
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781847440327
Subjects: Bartholomew, Matthew (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Physicians -- England -- Cambridge -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Edward III, 1327-1377 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Cambridge University is in dire financial straits--the town's landlords are demanding an extortionate rent rise for the students' hostels and the plague years have left the colleges with scant resources. Tension between town and gown is at a boiling point and soon explodes into violence and death. Into this maelstrom comes a charismatic physician whose healing methods owe more to magic than medicine--but his success threatens Matthew Bartholomew's professional reputation, and his life.