The Wages of Sin: A Novel

The Wages of Sin: A Novel

A page-turning tale of murder, subversion and vice in which aÂ female medical student in Victorian Edinburgh is drawn into a murder investigation when she recognizes one of the corpses in her anatomy lecture.
Sarah Gilchrist has fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admits women. She is determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, but Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself: professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, andâ€•perhaps worst of allâ€•her female peers who will do anything to avoid being associated with a fallen woman.

Desperate for a proper education, Sarah turns to one of the cityâ€™s ramshackle charitable hospitals for additional training. The St Gilesâ€™ Infirmary for Women ministers to the downtrodden and drunk, the thieves and whores with nowhere else to go. In this environment, alongside a group of smart and tough teachers, Sarah gets quite an education. But when Lucy, one of Sarahâ€™s patients, turns up in the university dissecting room as a battered corpse, Sarah finds herself drawn into a murky underworld of bribery, brothels, and body snatchers.

Painfully aware of just how little separates her own life from that of her former patientâ€™s, Sarah is determined to find out what happened to Lucy and bring those responsible for her death to justice. But as she searches for answers in Edinburghâ€™s dank alleyways, bawdy houses and fight clubs, Sarah comes closer and closer to uncovering one of Edinburghâ€™s most lucrative trades, and, in doing so, puts her own life at riskâ€¦

An irresistible read with a fantastic heroine, beautifully drawn setting, fascinating insights into what it was like to study medicine as a woman at that time, The Wages of Sin is a stunning debut that heralds a striking new voice in historical fiction.

Country	USA
Author	Kaite Welsh
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781681773322
ISBN	1681773325
Label	Pegasus Books
Manufacturer	Pegasus Books
NumberOfPages	400
PublicationDate	2017-03-07
Publisher	Pegasus Books
ReleaseDate	2017-03-07
Studio	Pegasus Books

The Wages of Sin: A Novel

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