Healer : A Novel (Paperback)

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Bodies are not the only things that sometimes require healing. Sometimes that's true of marriages, relationships of all kinds, our grief, even our own attitudes about our place in the world. That, in brief, is the gist of Carol Cassella's compelling 2010 novel “Healer.” Two factors caused Claire ...

from jmyers24

Healer, Carol Cassella's sophomore novel, is a solid family drama with an original storyline that is very in tune with today. Claire and Addison Boehning were one of Seattle's golden couples who went from struggling to rich almost overnight when Addison, a biochemist, discovered a way to test for...

from zibilee

Claire Boehning is dealing with a lot these days. After a disastrous complication with her husband Addison's new drug research, Claire and her small family are left financially destitute. This is a severe change, as in the days leading up to the disaster, Claire, Addison and their teenage daughte...

from TheLoopyLibrarian

The storytelling in this novel is filled with an underlying tension that grabs the reader and doesn't let go until the last page. I didn't expect that from a novel about a doctor who is forced to return to work after her husband loses a fortune on a failed cancer drug. Because she never completed...

from CelticLibrarian

What's left when you've lost it all? This second novel by medical doctor Carol Cassella explores the answer to the question -- what is left when you've lost all your material possessions, your home, your reputation, and your previous world of friends and social interaction? The answer lies, for t...