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Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she’s lost her way. A medical school dropout, she’s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days. Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad’s illness, her mom’s judgment, and her…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2023Ballantine Books · 384 pages · 9780593160244
- Other · English · 2023Hodder & Stoughton · 9781399710763
- Other · English · 2022Random House Publishing Group · 368 pages · 9780593160220
American literatureYoung womenFictionDysfunctional familiesBrainDiseasesPatientsMissing persons





