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A world-renowned expert on the human heart, she still struggles to understand her own. Inspired by the career of Maude Abbott, one of Canada’s first female physicians, The Heart Specialist is a story about the mysterious, painful journey into selfhood, and a “brilliant first novel” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Feb 1, 2009 · Summary. The Heart Specialist is the story of Agnes White, a young woman who becomes one of the first female doctors in Canada in the early 1900s. It's inspired by Maude Abbott's career, who was in fact one of Canada's first female physicians. The book follows Agnes from her childhood in the 1870s to after the end of World War I in 1919.
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- Claire Holden Rothman
The Heart Specialist is a likeable and sincere comedy centered around the friendship of two doctors. Arriving from Boston with a nearly-minted heartbreak and an embarrassing pin-up calendar spread, Ray “Glucose Ray” Howard (Brian White) is finishing his residency as an on-call intern at a Southern Florida HMO run hospital that is less prestigious than
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978-1-897151-21-1. The Heart Specialist, Claire Holden Rothman’s first novel, is a book to curl up with on rainy evenings – preferably with a pot of the heroine’s favourite beverage, tea. A highly readable work of historical fiction, spanning the period from the late nineteenth century to just after World War I, it portrays the life of a ...
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The Heart Specialist. Written by Claire Holden Rothman Review by James Hawking. Agnes White, a character based on one of Canada’s first female doctors, is determined to follow in the footsteps of the father, a doctor who had deserted his family under a cloud when Agnes was five years old.
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Mar 1, 2009 · The Heart Specialist. Inspired by the life of Doctor Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott, The Heart Specialist is the story of a woman pursuing her dream at the dawn of the twentieth century. Stripped of a regular childhood when her father is accused of a horrific crime and abandons the family, Agnes was never considered ladylike.
