Pre-Owned The Doctor's Daughter (Paperback) by Hilma Wolitzer

from gwendolyndawson

A writer/editor comes to terms with her family history and the fallibility of memory. One morning Alice Brill awakes with a sudden awareness that something is wrong. In her voyage to discover the cause of her feeling, she questions her writing/career, her marriage, her family, her friendships, an...

from BinnieBee

Well, here we go again. What is it with all these 40-something wives that makes them so unhappy with their nearly perfect husbands? Other than that, the book was well-written and an interesting read.

from msbaba

The Doctor's Daughter by Hilma Wolitzer is an intelligently written mystery of self-discovery. Ultimately, it is about a woman coming to terms with the person she has become. In the beginning of the story, the protagonist, Alice Brill, has a strange, malignant feeling in her chest. The book takes...

from bookwormteri

I don't think that I like this book, but I could not put it down. I felt that it was VERY anticlimactic. Alice Brill is a restless woman that can't quite figure out why she feels that something is very wrong. Her job is fine, her marriage is ok, and her children are grown up. But she can't put aw...

from bobbieharv

A lovely novel, about a woman "book doctor," her affair with one of her younger clients, her marriage breakup and reconciliation, and her discovery about her father's affair with his nurse. Wonderful writing.