With its vivid depictions of old New York and its enormously appealing characters, The Gilded Hour is a captivating novel by an author at the height of her powers. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member. If you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life.įor Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor-and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him. : The Gilded Hour (9781504658850) by Donati, Sara and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The year is 1883, and in New York City, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie-both graduates of the Woman's Medical School-treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so puts everything they've strived for in jeopardy.Īnna's work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. The international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters presents a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York.
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