Touching Distance

Description

Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to take up the post of Physician to the Aberdeen Dispensary. Alec's dreams of progress are thrown into disarray when a mysterious disease suddenly strikes the town. Alec recognizes it as childbed fever. Desperate to save his patients' lives, Alec sets out on an astonishing medical quest to conquer the disease.

Awards

Winner of Medical Journalists' Association Open Book Award: Medical-Themed Fiction 2009.

Author description

Rebecca Abrams was born in Cambridge in 1963. Her first book, When Parents Die, was shortlisted for the MIND award and has since become a highly respected classic in its field. Her most recent book, Three Shoes, One Sock and No Hairbrush, was a UK best-seller. Awarded an Amnesty Prize for her reportage on children in war, Rebecca is a regular contributor to the Guardian and a former columnist for the Daily Telegraph. She lives in Oxford with her husband and two children. Touching Distance is her first novel.