The Scribe of Siena : A Novel (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

For those people, like myself, who are waiting for the next installment in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series this book should fill the void nicely. The book opens in modern USA but soon moves to modern Italy and then to Italy of the 14th century. Our protagonist, Beatrice, is a neurosurgeon with ...

from nbmars

This historical fiction/paranormal novel in the style of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander and Connie Willis's Doomsday Book combines art, history, romance and time travel. The main protagonist is Beatrice Trovato, a modern-day brain surgeon who has a unique gift of extra-sensory perception that occasio...

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For all the Outlander-read-likes I've read over the years, this novel comes the closest to capturing the magic of that beloved novel and it does so in its own unique setting (1300s Italy) and its own mythology. Beatrice is a twenty-first-century neurosurgeon who gets pulled into research on the B...

from cathyskye

I have soft spots in my heart for well-written books about time travel and the Plague. I know they're rather odd topics, but there you are. It's been a long time since I've read a serious time travel novel, and when I heard about Melodie Winawer's The Scribe of Siena, I knew I wanted to read it. ...

from BrokenTeepee

I fell into this book and it was very hard for me to put it down. Beatrice is an accomplished neurosurgeon who lives an ordered life in New York. Her only family, her brother Ben, is an historian living in Sienna, Italy. Ben is researching the impacts of the plague on Siena in the 14th century an...