It’s a historical fiction novel with some romance mixed in. The book was marketed as a Gothic novel, but I think that description is incorrect (as discussed further below). If this summary was useful to you, please consider supporting this site by leaving a tip ( $2, $3, or $5) or joining the Patreon!Īnatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz was recently released and chosen as Reese’s Book Club Pick for January 2022.
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The book ends with Hazel receiving a letter (presumably from Jack) some time later that's sent from New York, saying that he still loves her and is waiting her her.įor more detail, see the full Chapter-by-Chapter Summary. Instead, Hazel continues treating patients from her home, and Jack disappears. Hazel wants them to be together, but Jack knows he will be on the run indefinitely and he knows Hazel cannot pursue her dreams while on the run. Beecham prepares to go to America to get a fresh start, and he offers Hazel a vial of his immortality tonic, saying he thinks she can make good use of it. She has also discovered that he is immortal, and Dr. However, Bernard betrays her and has Jack arrested, being accused of the murder of various missing people.
Beecham has been abducting the poor in order to use them for body parts and to practice transplant surgeries, she asks Bernard for his help in alerting the authorities. Before he can kill Jack, Hazel is able to get them both free. She then sees that he's abducted Jack as well. Beecham performing an eye transplant using an involuntary donor. The day of Hazel's test she catches a glimpse of Dr. He indicates that he was kidnapped and a doctor removed his arm without his consent. One day, Munroe resurfaces, but he is missing an arm. Jack points out folk remedy, wort flower, to Hazel which she uses to treat patients with Roman fever and it seems to show some promising results.
She also starts treating patients (by turning her castle into a makeshift hospital) while her family is away. Hazel starts working with a grave-snatcher, Jack, to illegally procure corpses to study with. There's also a disease going around, the Roman fever, which is causing havoc and mass deaths. Meanwhile, among the poor in town, people have been suspiciously disappearing, including one of Jack's friends, Munroe. Beecham agrees to allow her to take the physician's test, if she can learn the material herself, to become qualified if she passes.
While she's not longer permitted to attend class, Dr. Dressed as a man, Hazel secretly starts attending anatomy classes taught by Dr. In 1817 in Scotland, Hazel is a 17-year-old upper-class girl who is meant to marry her cousin Bernard, a future Viscount, but dreams of being a surgeon.
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