The Woman with the Cure

"Huge applause... women have always been in science-despite those who would pretend otherwise." --Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

She gave up everything - and changed the world.

A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe.

In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularl...