Review: The Gilded Hour

The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a very interesting historical fiction novel. It gave details of life in New York and Brooklyn during the 1800's and only a writer who had done extensive research could write about.

The story revolves around Anna, a doctor and a detective, Jack. They are on trail of a person who is performing abortions illegally and is causing the women to die terrible deaths with pain and infection. Also, they are in charge of two little girls who have lost their parents and are immigrants from Italy who became separated from their two brothers. Anna and Jack take it upon themselves to try to track the boys down even though in those times it was very difficult.

Imagine not being able to just pick up a phone, or log into the internet to get information about anything you want. This was life then and every orphan asylum and institution had to be visited and questioned. These trips were made either by horse and carriage or by train which was very time consuming.

As I was reading this book I kept feeling that I wanted more. Very enjoyable read.

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