The Doctor

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 375. Red over black paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket design by Marc Cohen. Originally published in the UK by Serpent's Tail under the title James Miranda Barry.

Signed by Author to title page.

A novel based on the real-life story of James Miranda Barry, a female physician compelled to live as a man at the turn of nineteenth century England. "Out of the extraordinary facts of James Miranda Barry's life, Patricia Duncker has created extraordinary fiction. The Doctor... snatches the breath away." –The Scotsman