Lucy Ward

The Empress and the English Doctor by Lucy Ward A Times Best Book of 2022 so far Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 Sparkling history…with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking — The Times A killer virus…an all-powerful Empress…an encounter cloaked in secrecy…the astonishing true story. Within living memory, smallpox was a dreaded...