Somers Treatment

By Gillian Bradshaw

Life-enhancing medical research or the work of an ambitious neuroscientist? Worthy doctor, Janet Morley, has taken Madhap, a young, deaf Nepalese boy, under her wing. Satisfying her maternal desires as well as her humanitarian beliefs, she's brought him back to England in the hope that she can find the medical aid he needs in order to hear and communicate. Eminent neurosurgeon, David Somers, is only too keen to advance his research in language impairment, and begins the unprecedented treatment. Janet's suspicions are aroused when she meets Michael Shahid, an Ml5 agent employed to ensure that the government's backing of the research is deserved. When Janet's house is burgled and David Somers and his assistant found murdered, Michael suspects that industrial espionage might be to blame, but the real truth is far more worrying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0727859277
• ISBN13: 9780727859273
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Severn House
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Didn't want it to end

This is the second Bradshaw novel that I've read, the first one being Wolf Hunt, and I really liked that one too. The Somers Treatment is so different from Wolf Hunt, but in both, Bradshaw does a great job at character development. The Somers Treatment is about Dr. Janet Morly, who adopts a deaf orphan boy from Nepal named Madhab. She takes him home to Britain in hopes to have his impaired hearing corrected and to learn language and get an education. They get help from an old med school acquaintance, David Somers, who happens to be a genius as well as unethical, pompous, and arrogant. Madhab's treatment is experimental, and along the way Janet learns that it is being funded by the Ministry of Defense (MoD). Things get more interesting when an employee of the MoD, Michael Shahid, steps into the picture to make sure all the risks have been explained to Madhab and that no one is taking advantage of him. From there the story gets more involved with murder, espionage, romance and science too. It was a good book. I finished it in only a couple days. I loved the way Bradshaw developed the characters and the entire story. They were all believable and smart. I felt empathy for the characters and sorry for Madhab too, but I didn't pity him; I liked all the main characters and wanted the book to go on longer. I'm looking forward to reading another novel by Gillian Bradshaw.