One of my earliest historical fiction books, and I loved it to pieces. It seemed so real, and so unflinching, and I dreamt about it a lot. Now I know that in many ways, it follows genre conventions and Gordon's research is … middling and in

Bringing the saga of the Cole family physicians to an end, we see a daughter of the family make her way through modern medicine. She decides against a soulless research jobs and becomes a country doctor. She deals with the difficulties that

Centuries after the first volume, the Cole family is still going strong as physicians. But how do you deal with the deafness of your oldest son if healing is your complete identity? Not particularly well, it turns out. There's a lot of room