Healer

This story resonated with me. Claire Boehning and her family are catapulted back to the real world after her biochemist husband's brilliant but flawed cure for cancer is scrapped in the testing phase. They have become very used to all the trappings and privileges that go along with being very rich.......more

Healer, Carol Cassella's sophomore novel, is a solid family drama with an original storyline that is very in tune with today. Claire and Addison Boehning were one of Seattle's golden couples who went from struggling to rich almost overnight when Addison, a biochemist, discovered a way to test for ov......more

Claire is truly a healer, beginning with her own family. When her husband loses everything, keeping her in the dark about most of it, she and her daughter move to their second home in a remote area of Washington. This move is from a lavish, pretty much over the top lifestyle into a house that is bar......more

This is a novel following her first book,Oxygen. The author, Carol Cassella is an anesthesiologist in Seattle, WA and understands both medicine and the health care system. The Healer of the title is Claire Addison. She is a doctor who hasn't practiced medicine in over 14 years. She has been wife to A......more

As I get closer to (possible) retirement, my fondness for books about smug, well-off people who end up poor because of unwise financial decisions is starting to wane. I used to love these books in a totally mean, schadenfreudy way, but now they make me uneasy. This book is about a woman whose husban......more