The Doctor and the Diva: A Novel

ISBN: 0143119303

Author: McDonnell, Adrienne

Condition: New

Inspired by a true story-a breathtaking novel of romantic obsession, longing, and one woman's choice between motherhood and her operatic career callingIt is 1903, and Erika von Kessler has struggled for years to become pregnant. Resigned to childlessness, Erika-a talented opera singer and the wife of a prominent Boston businessman-secretly plans to move to Italy to pursue her musical career. The charismatic Doctor Ravell is a rising fertility specialist. When Erika becomes his patient, he is mesmerized by her elegance and extraordinary voice-and finds himself taking an impetuous risk that could ruin them both.Stunningly realized and inspired by Adrienne McDonnells own family history, The Doctor and the Diva moves from snowy Boston to the tropical forests of the Caribbean to the gilded balconies of Florence. It is searing historical fiction-a tale of opera, the indomitable power of romantic obsession, and a womans irreconcilable desires as she is forced to choose between the child she has always yearned for and the artistic career she cannot live without. Fans of Ann Patchetts Bel Canto and Nancy Horans Loving Frank will be moved by this novels bittersweet beauty.