Publisher's Synopsis
Truth changes lives... knowledge changes the world. It is 1790. After ten years' training Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to become Physician to the Aberdeen Dispensary. Alec has ambitious plans for modernising medical practice in the town, but his dreams of progress are checked when a mysterious disease strikes the town, killing every newly delivered mother for miles around. Alec recognises it as childbed fever and desperate to save his patients' lives, sets out to conquer the disease. While he struggles to find solutions that lie far in the future, his wife Elizabeth is increasingly lost in the past, prey to the terrifying memories of her childhood in Antigua...
