Doctor

by Laura Spinney

The cool and self-absorbed narrator of Laura Spinney's debut novel is a woman doctor living and working in London's East End at the time of the outbreak of World War Two. Caught up by chance in the aftermath of a bloody riot between Fascist and Communist agitators, she finds herself strangely drawn to the woman whose injuries she the mysterious Anna, whose restaurant serves the best caviar in London. But this event begins a dangerous course of action which will threaten the doctor's reserved way of life, her relationship with her lover Morris, and finally her trust in human nature itself.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published October 25, 2002