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The Book of Madness and Cures

Regina O'melveny

Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice she's a woman who practices medicine. Her father a renowned physician has provided her entrée to this all-male profession and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets of the human body. Then her father disappears and Gabriella faces a crisis: without her father's patronage she is no longer permitted to treat her patients.

So she sets out across Europe to find her father. Following clues from his occasional enigmatic letters Gabriella crosses Switzerland Germany and France entering strange and forbidding cities. She travels to Scotland the Netherlands and finally to Morocco. In each new land she uncovers details of her father's unexplained flight and opens new mysteries of her own. Not just the mysteries of ailments and treatments but the ultimate mysteries of mortality love and the timeless human spirit. Filled with medical lore and sensuous vivid details of Renaissance life The Book of Madness and Cures is an intoxicating unforgetable debut.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : OCT 11, 2012
  • Imprint : John Murray
  • Page Extent : 384
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781848547070
  • Price : INR 575
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Regina O'melveny

Regina O'Melveny's poetry has been published widely in literary journals garnering several prizes. She grew up in California and spent a year living in India. Thus began her many extended travels that would later inspire The Book of Madness and Cures her first novel. She lives in Rancho Palos Verdes California.

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