James Miranda Barry Patricia Duncker

At the turn of the nineteenth century, ten-year-old James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. Across the Empire, Barry achieved fame not only as a brilliant physician, but also a legendary duellist and a celebrated social figure. But James Miranda Barry was also a woman. Her greatest achievement of all had been to "pass" for a man for more than fifty years. Patricia Duncker"s novel tells Barry"s story for the first time, in a richly inventive and entertaining tale of dark family secrets, adultery, questioned paternity and colonial history. It confirms her rare talent as a writer of profound ideas and immense storytelling power. "A miracle of a book that is richly atmospheric and gains the murky excitement of a Victorian thriller." - "Sunday Times". "A marvellous work...superbly imagined and flamboyantly written." - Beryl Bainbridge. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге James Miranda Barry (Patricia Duncker)