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In the town of Roxton two women have been rivals since girlhood: Catherine Murchison, big, generous and loved in the slums, and Betty Steel, sleek, clever and jealous, whose husband's practice is set against the doctor Catherine married. Deeping was a physician before he was a novelist, and the medical rivalry — the consultations, the reputations, the patients who move from one brass plate to the other — is exact. The town takes sides, and the ending is a public one.
In the town of Roxton two women have been rivals since girlhood: Catherine Murchison, big, generous and loved in the slums, and Betty Steel, sleek, clever and jealous, whose husband's practice is set against the doctor Catherine married. Deeping was a physician before he was a novelist, and the m...
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Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was an English novelist born in Southend, a qualified physician who practised only a year before turning to fiction. He served in the medical corps at Gallipoli, and his post-war novel Sorrell and Son was among the best-selling books of the 1920s. His works include A Woman's War, The Pride of Eve, Uther and Igraine, and Sorrell and Son.
Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) was an English novelist born in Southend, a qualified physician who practised only a year before turning to fiction. He served in the medical corps at Gallipoli, and his post-war novel Sorrell and Son was among the best-selling books of the 1920s. His works include A W...
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