Title: Eye of a Rook
Description: "In 1860s London, Arthur sees his wife, Emily, suddenly struck down by a pain for which she can find no words, forced to endure harmful treatments and reliant on him for guidance. Meanwhile, in contemporary Perth, Alice, a writer, and her older husband, Duncan, find their marriage threatened as Alice investigates the history of hysteria, female sexuality and the treatment of the female body - her own and the bodies of those who came before."--Publisher.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, general, Women, Fiction, Sexual behavior, Human body, Hysteria, Self-realization in women