Author: Myla Goldberg
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: novel, remedy, wickett
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1400078121
ISBN-13: 9781400078127

Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry abandons his medical studies and enlists Lydia to help him invent a mail-order medicine called Wickett’s Remedy. Then the 1918 influenza epidemic sweeps through Boston, and in a world turned upside down Lydia must forge her own path through the tragedy unfolding around her. As she secures work as a nurse at a curious island medical station conducting human research into the disease, Hen