The Doctor's Daughter

Sound Library, 2006-03. Audio CD. Fair. Unabridged audiobook on 8 CDs, narrated by Anna Fields. Approximately 9.25 hours. ISBN 0792739132; Sound Library, BBC Audiobooks America. Ex-lib with typical markings. Haunted by the feeling that something in her life is not right - manifested as a physical pain in her chest - Alice Brill begins to examine her life in a search for answers. "The moment I awoke I knew that something was terribly wrong. I could feel it in that place behind my breastbone, where bad news always slides in like junk mail through a slot. It was there that I first acknowledged my parents would die someday (“Oh, sweetheart, but not for such a long, long time!”); where I knew I was ugly and would never be loved; where I suffered spasms of regret about my marriage and my children, and fear of their deaths and of my own. God knows there were plenty of things wrong in the larger world I could easily have named, and that aroused a similar sense of dread, but whatever was lodged in my chest that April morning was personal, not global. I knew that much, at least.