The Winter Sisters, Tim Westover
The Winter Sisters, Tim Westover
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The Winter Sisters
A Novel

Author: Tim Westover

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Unabridged: 11 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/24/2019


Synopsis

Folklore, medicine, and superstition in the Georgia mountains.

Dr. Waycross knows bleeding and blistering, the best scientific medicine of 1822. He arrives in the Georgia mountains to bring his modern methods to the superstitious masses.

The local healers, the Winter sisters, claim to treat yellow fever, consumption, and the hell-roarin' trots just as well as he can. Some folks call the sisters herb women; some call them witches. Waycross calls them quacks.

But when the threat of rabies—incurable and fatal—comes to town, Dr. Waycross and the Winter sisters must combine their science and superstition in a desperate search for a remedy.

Can they find a miracle cure, or has the age of miracles passed?

About Tim Westover

Tim Westover is the author of The Winter Sisters, The Old Weird South, and Auraria. He lives in Grayson, Georgia.


Reviews

3.5 stars! What a quirky, fun historical! Dr. Waycross is a doctor in Georgia in 1822. He’s arrived in the mountains to bring his medicine there, knowing that these are among the most superstitious people around. The Winter Sisters are the local healers, and they already can cure the ailments of the d......more

I never knew I would enjoy a Historical Fiction read with fantasy and magical realism as much! Westover is such a creative writer that was able to transport the reader into this world - the lush Georgia landscape with its intricate and vivid details of the southern frontier and fantastical world of......more

Goodreads review by Holly

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(Special thanks to NetGalley and Qw Publishers for providing me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.) This novel is the exact embodiment of what I want in a book: the story is intriguing, concrete and well-balanced, a work of fiction based on historical facts, the characters are unique and lovabl......more