Research Catalog

Title

Sold for endless rue / Madeleine E. Robins.

Author

Robins, Madeleine E.

Publication

New York : Forge, 2013.

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Details

Description

336 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"After a blighted childhood, young Laura finds peace and purpose in the home of a midwife and healer. Later, she enrolls in Salerno's famed medical school--the first in the world to admit women. Laura and her adoptive mother hope that Laura can build a bridge between women's herbal healing and the new science of medicine developing in thirteenth century Italy. The hardest lessons are those of love; Laura falls hard for a fellow student who abandons her for a wealthy wife. Worse, her mother rejects her as "impure." Shattered, Laura devotes herself to her work, becoming a respected medico. But her heart is still bitter, and when she sees a chance for revenge, she grabs it--and takes for her own Bieta, the newborn daughter of a woman whose husband regularly raided the physician's garden for bitter herbs to satisfy his pregnant wife's cravings. Determined to protect her adored daughter from the ravages of the world, Laura isolates the young woman in a tower. Bieta, as determined as her mother, escapes, and finds adventure--and love--on the streets of Salerno. Bieta's betrayal of her mother's love comes at a terrible price as lives are ruined and families are torn apart. Laura's medical knowledge cannot heal her broken heart; only a great act of love can bring everyone forgiveness and peace"--

Subject

• 476-1268
• Mothers and daughters > Fiction
• Adopted children > Fiction
• Revenge > Fiction
• FICTION / Historical
• Italy > History > 476-1268 > Fiction
• Salerno (Italy : Province) > History > Fiction

Genre/Form

Historical fiction

Note

• "A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780765303998 (hbk.)
• 076530399X (hbk.)
• 9781466806757 (ebk.)
• 1466806753 (ebk.)

LCCN

^^2012049722

OCLC

• 812252703
• SCSB-10753460

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library