Doubting Thomas (Twenty Seven Vegabond) by Richardson, Heather

Doubting Thomas\nby Heather Richardson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Heather Richardson\nTitle: Doubting Thomas\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary\nPublisher: Vagabond Voices\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781908251879\nISBN-10: 1908251875\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis is a story of sex, drugs and blasphemy in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh experienced through four viewpoints over fifteen years: Dr Robert Carruth, his wife Isobel, and university students Mungo Craig and Thomas Aikenhead. After participating in the particularly gruesome autopsy of a pregnant prisoner, Robert is unable to consummate his marriage to Isobel. He buries himself in work, and his overzealousness contributes to the demise of a dow.