REVIEW: The Beacon at Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw

I’m reposting this review as I’ve just discovered that the book has finally been released digitally! Hopefully it’s a sign that more of Bradshaw’s older books will become digitally available soon.

In the Fourth Century A.D., independent and determined young Charis is forbidden to become a doctor because she is a woman. Disguising herself as a eunuch, she flees Ephesus and an unwanted marriage for Alexandria, then the center of learning. There she apprentices to a Jewish doctor but eventually ...