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Wickett's Remedy

A Novel

By: Myla Goldberg

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Paperback | 10 October 2006 | Edition Number 1

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384 Pages

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20.3 x 13.4 x 2.2

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From the author of the bestselling Bee Season, the magnificently imagined story of a winning young Irish American heroine's determined progress through an all but forgotten historical tragedy--Boston during the 1918 influenza epidemic. First time in paperback.

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 WickettP#8217;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, HenryP#8217;s former business partner steals the formula for WickettP#8217;s Remedy to create for himself a new future, tryingP#8212;and almost succeedingP#8212;to erase the past he is leaving behind.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Alive with narrative ingenuity, and tinged with humor as well as sorrow, this inspired recreation of a forgotten era powerfully reminds us how much individual voices matterP#8212;in history and in life.

Industry Reviews

"Brilliant. . . . A wonderfully courageous second novel." -Newsday

"Remarkable. . . . A historically credible account of the period just after America entered the First World War, when 'the Spanish Lady' laid waste to Boston and much of the rest of the country." -Salon

"Her second novel is of a piece with [Bee Season] in its invention and stylistic skill. . . . A warmhearted, unusual and intelligent consideration of a world about which few people know." -San Francisco Chronicle

"An engrossing look at how one young woman grows through personal losses at a time when so many lost so much." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

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