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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice pick!
Bestseller in Fiction at Tattered Cover Book Store (in June & July!)
The Cape Doctor is named one of Barnes & Noble’s “100 Best Books of Summer”
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“Remarkable . . . Absolutely superb . . . beautifully written . . . In sum, an unforgettable work of art that deserves raves. Bravo!”
— Booklist
“Historical fiction at its best”
— Denver Post
“Artfully written”
— Kirkus Review
“Elegant and provocative . . . This beautifully written work will spark much debate.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Wise, emotionally resonant . . . fearless”
— Star-Tribune
Advance Praise for The Cape Doctor
“The Cape Doctor, born at the intersection of history and imagination, powerfully examines the fluidity and complexity of gender . . . [and] offers a profound meditation on identity, loneliness, and love. The Cape Doctor provides everything I come to a novel hoping for—graceful prose, first-rate storytelling, and an irresistible protagonist observed with deep compassion. I admired and adored this book.”
— Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade
“The Cape Doctor does what the best novels do. It invites us to put aside our own lives for a time in order to live someone else’s. And it repays the moral imagination that requires with something like wisdom.”
— Richard Russo
“A remarkable reimagining of a remarkable life. The narrator of The Cape Doctor—courageous, lonely, vivid—lingers in the mind like a departed friend.”
— Elizabeth Kostova
“The Cape Doctor is one of those rare wonders of historical fiction: a novel that is so utterly transporting, so fully steeped in its time and place I kept looking up from the page and wondering where I was. And how did E.J. Levy do it?Was she there? The story of its hero Dr. Perry, an Irish woman practicing medicine under cover as a man in nineteenth-century South Africa, raises powerful contemporary questions about the nature of border crossings—of gender, of class, and ultimately of love.”
— Sarah Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Postmistress
“The Cape Doctor is a rare achievement: equal parts brains and heart, a page-turner and a deeply moving exploration of precisely what it means to be human.”
— Lauren Fox, author of Send for Me (a recent Today Show Book Club pick)