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Poor things : episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer /

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In the early 1880s, two Scottish doctors love the same woman. Unfortunately, the girl has been created by one of them from human remains. Traveling from Glasgow to the Mediterranean to Paris and beyond, the triangle deal with true love and scientific daring.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gray, Alasdair (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992.
Subjects:	Physicians > Scotland > Glasgow > Fiction. Physicians. Scotland > Glasgow. English fiction Novels. Fiction. Fantasy fiction.

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