Inside the Writer’s Cafe – PHYSICIANS IN HISTORICAL SETTINGS

Published: Aug. 23, 2010, 3:06 p.m.

In My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira, midwife Mary Sutter suffers through the horrors of medicine in the Civil War to become a doctor. The Doctor and The Diva, set in Boston, is about the changing lives of an aspiring opera singer, her husband and a doctor.