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The Woman with the Cure by Lynn Cullen: A Book Review

The Woman with the Cure Author: Lynn Cullen Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Berkley Release Date: February 21, 2023 Pages: 430 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis : She gave up everything — and changed the world.      A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe .        In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world’s best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god.        But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure. Applying the same determination that li...

Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen: A Book Review

Mrs. Poe Author: Lynn Cullen Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Gallery, Threshold, Pocket Books Release Date: October 1st, 2013 Pages: 338 Source: Netgalley/ Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis:  A writer and his demons. A woman and her desires. A wife and her revenge . . .       Inspired by literature’s most haunting love triangle, award-winning author Lynn Cullen delivers a pitch-perfect rendering of Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress’s tantalizing confession, and his wife’s frightening obsession . . . in this “intelligent, sexy, and utterly addictive” (M. J. Rose) new masterpiece of historical fiction.       1845: New York City is a sprawling warren of gaslit streets and crowded avenues, bustling with new immigrants and old money, optimism and opportunity, poverty and crime. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” is all the rage—the success of which a struggling poet like Frances Osgood can only dream. As a mother trying to...