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Remedies (Hardcover)

By: Kate Ledger (Author)

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"An impressive portrait of a family in crisis, executed with finesse and assurance....Ledger's accomplished debut offers a compelling view of married life through the prism of unacknowledged grief." (starred review)

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A captivating new voice in womenas fiction delves into the haunted past of a physicianas seemingly perfect marriage.
Simon and Emily Bear look like a couple that has it all. Simon is a respected doctor. His wife, Emily, shines as a partner in a premier public relations firm. But their marriage is scarred by hidden wounds. Even as Simon tends his patientsa ills, and Emily spins away her clientsa mistakes, they canat seem to do the same for themselves or their relationship.
Simon becomes convinced heas discovered a cure for chronic pain, a finding that could become a medical breakthrough, yet he is oblivious to the pain that he causes at home. Emily, struggling to move beyond the devastating loss she and Simon suffered fifteen years earlier, realizes she hasnat felt anything for a long timeathat is, until a lover from her past resurfaces and forces her to examine her marriage anew.
In a debut novel on par with todayas top women writers, "Remedies" explores the complicated facets of pain, in the nerves of the body and the longings of the heart. Depicting modern-day marriage with a razor-sharp eye, "Remedies" is about what it takes, as an individual and as a couple, to recover from profound loss.

Simon Bear, a respected doctor, and Emily Bear, a partner in a PR firm, excel in their professional lives, but have hit a rut in their marriage after a devastating loss fifteen years ago, a situation that is further complicated when a lover from Emily's past resurfaces and forces her to examine her marriage anew. A first novel.

Simon Bear, a respected doctor, and Emily Bear, a partner in a PR firm, excel in their professional lives, but have hit a rut in their marriage after a devastating loss fifteen years ago, a situation that is further complicated when a lover from Emily's past resurfaces and forces her to examine her marriage anew. A first novel.

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Simon is one of Baltimore's most talented physicians, and he thinks he might have discovered a breakthrough cure for chronic pain. But at home, he and his wife Emily quietly suffer through a much subtler and insidious form of pain, as their marriage, fractured by an old trauma, slowly begins to break apart.

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