The Virgin Cure - Hardcover

"A powerful new voice in Canadian writing."
--Marjorie Anderson

"McKay is clearly a talented writer with a subtle sense of story, one that readers will look forward to hearing from, again and again."
--"The Gazette"
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"McKay is such a wonderful storyteller with a strong sense of place and time."
--"Library Journal"

"A lovely novel, written in a style that is both clean and subtle. McKay's voices are true; her characters sympathetic.... I'm certain readers will take to The Virgin Cure just as they did The Birth House."
--"The Vancouver Sun
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"A powerful new voice in Canadian writing."
--Marjorie Anderson

"McKay is clearly a talented writer with a subtle sense of story, one that readers will look forward to hearing from, again and again."
--"The Gazette"
" "
"McKay is such a wonderful storyteller with a strong sense of place and time."
--"Library Journal"

"Finely crafted and remarkably researched.... While set in the past, the book informs the modern dialogue on feminism, the sex trade, and choice."
--Stacey May Fowles, "The Walrus"
"A worthy follow up to...The Birth House.... Character, setting, mood and plot are melded naturally to create a Dickensian world of deprivation and determination."
--"Winnipeg Free Press"
"A powerful novel, rooted in the same elements that made The Birth House both critically lauded and a bestseller.... One of McKay's gifts and skills as a writer is her ability to utterly immerse the reader in her fictional world.... A powerful, affecting novel."
--Robert J. Wiersema, "National Post"
"Fans of McKay's bestselling novel The Birth House are going to love The Virgin Cure.... McKay's vivid prose can trigger in readers the taste of a hot bowl of oyster stew, the reek of Chrystie Street tenement houses and the sound of a taffeta skirt's hem brushing the floor of a concert saloon.

"McKay captures the era's atmosphere in such crisply rendered details. . . . Thought provoking and beautifully rendered."--Booklist

"So well researched is this novel, so deep does it take readers into the dark and desperate life of Lower Manhattan that it is easy to believe it was written 150 years ago as a treatise decrying the fate that awaited so many impoverished young girls."--Associated Press

McKay captures the era s atmosphere in such crisply rendered details. . . . Thought provoking and beautifully rendered. --Booklist"

So well researched is this novel, so deep does it take readers into the dark and desperate life of Lower Manhattan that it is easy to believe it was written 150 years ago as a treatise decrying the fate that awaited so many impoverished young girls. --Associated Press"

-McKay captures the era's atmosphere in such crisply rendered details. . . . Thought provoking and beautifully rendered.---Booklist

-So well researched is this novel, so deep does it take readers into the dark and desperate life of Lower Manhattan that it is easy to believe it was written 150 years ago as a treatise decrying the fate that awaited so many impoverished young girls.---Associated Press

A macabre voyage into the underbelly of nineteenth-century New York from the author of THE BIRTH HOUSE.