What a heroine Endurance Proudfoot is! I loved her from the start. An unconventional woman who takes us on a fascinating – if bumpy – ride through a mans world. I laughed, cried and most of all cheered! Cant stop thinking about it an absolute cruncher of a tale Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal
‘A complete joy of a novel that, like its wonderful protagonists namesake, is a story of endurance against all odds. Full of heart and so eloquently written, THAT BONESETTER WOMAN had me cheering Durie on from start to finish – I absolutely loved it’ Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora
Its usual, they say, for a young person coming to London for the first time to arrive with a head full of dreams. Well, Endurance Proudfoot did not. When she stepped off the coach from Sussex, on a warm and sticky afternoon in the summer of 1757, it never occurred to her that the city would be the place where shed make her fortune; she was just very annoyed to be arriving there at all.
Meet Endurance Proudfoot: clumsy as a carthorse, strong as an ox, with a tactless tongue and a face shes sure only a mother could love. Durie wants one thing in life: to become a bonesetter like her father. Its physically demanding work, requiring nerves of steel, and hes adamant its not a job for a woman.
Strong-willed and stubborn, Duries certain that in bonesetting, her big, usually clumsy hands have found their natural calling. So when shes bundled off to London with her beautiful sister, she wont let it stop her realising her dream. As her sister finds fame on the stage, Durie becomes Englands most celebrated bonesetter but what goes up must come down, and her success may become her undoing.
Inspired by the true stories of two of Georgian Englands most famous celebrities, That Bonesetter Woman is an uplifting tale about finding the courage to go your own way, when everyone says you cant and about realising that what makes you different can also make you strong.
