![]() The Gilded Hour is a historical fiction taking place in the late 1800’s in New York City. If that sort of thing doesn’t interest you, then feel free to skip over this review. ![]() This book is not fantasy or science fiction. Occasionally a different sort of book will strike my hard enough that I’ll find it necessary to veer off the path and talk about something a bit different. Typically, I reserve this website for fantasy and science fiction book reviews. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life.įor Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor-and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie-both graduates of the Woman’s Medical School-treat the city’s most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they’ve strived for in jeopardy.Īnna’s work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. The year is 1883, and in New York City, it’s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. ![]()
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