My name is Mary Sutter
by Robin Oliveira
Eager to escape the pains of a broken heart, Mary travels to Washington to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded. Working in the heart of the battlefields, performing in makeshift operating theatres, she comes under the guidance of William Stipp and James Blevens, two surgeons who unwittingly fall in love with Mary's courage and stubbornness. Resisting her mother's pleas to return home - Mary chases her ambition to become a surgeon in the desperately overwhelmed hospitals of the capital.
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Originally published: New York: Viking, 2010; London: Fig Tree, 2011.
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Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine - and run away from her recent heartbreak - Mary travels to Washington, DC, to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded. Under the guidance of two surgeons who unwittingly fall in love with Mary's courage, she pursues her medical career in the capital.
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