Being married to doctors, who put themselves and their patients first, doesn’t always guarantee that a marriage will end happily ever after. The Doctors’ Wives begins in 1996, when three close friends, Ellie, Laurel and Maggie, along with their husbands, attend the 25th Medical School Reunion.
As the women reunite, their stories are told in flashback, and the reader comes to know Ellie, the no nonsense, can do anything nurse; Laurel, the amazing caretaker and gourmet cook; and Maggie, the mother and writer struggling with her identity and marriage.
The Doctors’ Wives reveals the complications of being married to a doctor. The deeper meaning of the story is through the rich friendship of the women, their idealistic hopes in the beginning of their marriages that eventually wear out in the end. The core of their friendship helps them to conquer failures, to survive and to triumph. The Doctors’ Wives is really a story of friendship and hope.
