Chickering & Son by Richard D. Schubert pdf epub fb2

Tired of flower arranging and book clubs, middle-aged Ellen White goes to medical school. Successful as a student while still balancing the demands of mother of a teenager, she suddenly bumps into Roland Brink, an arrogant and imperious surgeon. Infuriating Ellen with innuendoes of her incompetence and outright misogyny, she comes to detest him. Until, that is, Brink develops a serious malignancy. Thrown into Brink’s world against her will, Ellen discovers his stone-cold persona is a refuge for a terrible secret, his intolerance of emotional weakness a cover for his own frailties. Ellen — and the reader — are forced to re-evaluate their notions of what constitutes integrity and defines a person’s decency.