In 19th-century Bologna, ambition is a scandal. Especially when it belongs to a woman with a scalpel.
Nora Beady is the only female student at her prestigious medical school, defying every expectation society has for her. With the support of Dr. Magdalena Morenco, the school’s lone female doctor, Nora pushes the boundaries of surgical science, working to refine the Cesarean section, a procedure most men deem too dangerous to attempt.
But science means little when the world refuses to listen. Against fierce opposition and personal risk, Nora faces her greatest test: a patient whose life depends on a surgery no woman has ever been allowed to perform.
Audrey Blake’s The Surgeon’s Daughter is a riveting story of courage, defiance, and the women who changed medicine forever.
