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A Man, For Want Of Better
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Tameda Publishing
Published: Sep 10 2026
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Scotland, 1797.
Catherine Fraser has the hands of a surgeon-and the misfortune to have been born a woman.
Trained from childhood by her physician father, Catherine has spent years treating the sick, setting broken limbs and delivering children. But when she is suddenly left alone in the world, she discovers that skill means nothing to men determined not to see it.
If Catherine wishes to continue the work for which she was trained, she must become someone the world is prepared to accept.
Taking the name Kit Fraser, she enters a dangerous world governed by men, where discovery could cost her everything. Each life she saves proves her ability-but draws her further into a deception from which there may be no easy return.
A sweeping historical novel of courage, sacrifice and one woman's refusal to accept the place the world assigned her.
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