Healer

 Healer

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       November 26, 2014

 

Author  Carol Cassella

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ISBN:                  978-1-4165-5614-5
Publisher:         Simon & Schuster
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This story has it all: love, wealth, hardship, loss, re-creation, and eventually the coming of peace and acceptance. And it’s a great read as well.

Claire leaves her career in medicine to become a full time mother on the birth of her daughter Jory. Her husband strikes gold when he develops a cure for breast cancer, plunging the young family into life of unprecedented wealth and luxury.

A gamble on a new research drug finds the family, wealth gone, lost on the flawed results of the vaccine testing, struggling to come to terms with the changes in their life.

 Moving from the wealthy suburbs of Seattle to a rundown farm house in the rural area of Hallam in the depths of winter Claire and Jory discover the harsh realities of life without luxury and money.

Claire faces the issue of having to return to work discovering the only work offered is at the public health clinic which is struggling to survive.

Add a Nicaraguan refugees searching for answers and the ever hopeful husband still searching for backers for his research and you have a gripping read.

Finely written, gently touching on the many raw spots in any relationship Cassella shows a rare insight into what makes a relationship survive through the most challenging of circumstances.

Fiction