A debut women's fiction novel that features two friends who are practicing physicians. Trying to juggle their careers, motherhood, marriage, and other relationships in Charlotte, North Carolina, Zadie Anson and Emma Colley are living their dreams.
Through difficult days with patients, the friends stay in close contact and support each other with humor, empathy, and love. Then, a blast from the past -- Dr. Nick Xenokostas, their former chief resident back in their medical school days -- comes to work with Emma's group. The memories and pain at his reappearance force them both to face each other to finally talk about everything that happened during that particularly terrible third year. No spoilers.
Although rich with the medical details I so love, the focus of this novel was more on women's relationships and romantic alliances. Since I had just finished DOCTORS AND FRIENDS, I was intrigued by Zadie and Emma's backstory, and was happy to get to know them better since they were mainly peripheral in that book. I'm so pleased to have found this author and will continue to read her.
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Company for this e-book ARC to read, review, and recommend.
This is part of a set of books featuring the same group of women physicians, in fact, the debut. I read the third book first and it was nice to get more backstory. It is probably best to read them in order of publication, however.
Genre - women's fiction, contemporary, medical drama
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