![]() ![]() Is Essie being haunted? And is her new stepfather a compassionate doctor or a monster? Essie begins an investigation into her new stepfather, but even as she does so, she senses a spirit following her. When Essie meets Mary Mallon (the infamous Typhoid Mary), her suspicions are amplified: Mary suggests that the nurses who have gone missing from the island are being experimented on by the doctor. Blackcreek, a reticent, serious man from Germany who she immediately doesn’t like. When they get to the desolate island, Essie finally meets Dr. Essie has a list of “unspeakable fears” that includes everything from cats to electricity to illness to a silver sick bell, and spends most of her time agonizing over the things she fears. Essie is angry to leave the place where she spent time with her beloved Da, who died two years ago, but even more she’s nervous about moving to North Brother, where incurably sick people are quarantined. All that changes instantly, however, when Essie’s mother remarries a prominent doctor who lives and works on nearby North Brother Island. What did you like about the book? Essie and her Irish-born mother live in a small tenement apartment in New York City in 1905 and are barely scraping by. Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or starred review) 4 ![]()
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