The listing, "The Book of Madness and Cures" by Regina O'Melveny has ended.
This is a new softcover book. It's a historical fiction novel. Having over 320 pages. And comes from a non-smoking home.
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in sixteenth-century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entry to this all-male profession and has inspired her at every turn. Then he disappears, and Gabriella faces a crisis. Without her father's patronage, she is no longer permitted to treat patients. So Gabriella sets out across Europe to find him.
(Amazon review) Gorgeous and brilliantly written and filled with details about science, medicine, food,and madness, "The book of Madness and Cures is an unforgettable debut.
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