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'Mary Beth Keane is one of those gifted young writers who helps me believe --still! --in the power of literature' Colum McCann

'Typhoid Mary is a sensational subject, but the strength of this novel is that it bears patient witness to an ordinary human life. Engrossing and wonderfully compassionate' Shelley Harris, Richard & Judy bestselling author of Jubilee

'Keane has very cleverly put flesh on the bogeywoman whom the press dubbed Typhoid Mary ...Disturbing and compelling' The Times

'Medical history's ultimate bad girl was Mary Mallon, the Irish cook who refused to concede that she might be a typhoid carrier, in spite of the trail of death that followed her. A fascinating turn of the last century-set medical cat-and-mouse story, Mary Beth Keane's FEVER summons sympathy for the contrary personality at its center, a self-made immigrant grappling with work and love, dignity and denial' VOGUE

'Mary Beth Keane inhabits Typhoid Mary in the infectiously readable FEVER' Vanity Fair

'Typhoid Mary is a sensational subject, but the strength of this novel is that it bears patient witness to an ordinary human life. Engrossing and wonderfully compassionate' Shelley Harris, Richard & Judy bestselling author of Jubilee

'Keane has very cleverly put flesh on the bogeywoman whom the press dubbed Typhoid Mary ...Disturbing and compelling' --The Times

Typhoid Mary is a sensational subject, but the strength of this novel is that it bears patient witness to an ordinary human life. Engrossing and wonderfully compassionate' Shelley Harris, Richard & Judy bestselling author of Jubilee

Keane has very cleverly put flesh on the bogeywoman whom the press dubbed Typhoid Mary ...Disturbing and compelling The Times

Medical history s ultimate bad girl was Mary Mallon, the Irish cook who refused to concede that she might be a typhoid carrier, in spite of the trail of death that followed her. A fascinating turn of the last century-set medical cat-and-mouse story, Mary Beth Keane s FEVER summons sympathy for the contrary personality at its center, a self-made immigrant grappling with work and love, dignity and denial. VOGUE

Mary Beth Keane inhabits Typhoid Mary in the infectiously readable FEVER. Vanity Fair, March 2013

--(Vanity Fair, March 2013)"

SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC AMERICA SERIES, STARRING ELISABETH MOSS Typhoid Mary: a selfish monster, or a hounded innocent? Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant in turn-of-the-century New York, is headstrong and brave, a woman who has battled fiercely to better her lot in life and keep her wayward lover Alfred on the straight and narrow. She works her way up the ranks to cook for the wealthiest families in Manhattan, but leaves a trail of death and disease in her wake. When she is imprisoned in complete isolation, despite being perfectly healthy herself, she refuses to understand her paradoxical situation. Condemned by press and public alike, she is branded a murderer, but continues to fight for her freedom... Fever casts a brilliant light over the life of a figure once described as 'the most dangerous woman in America', and Mary Beth Keane's fictional account is as fiercely compelling as Typhoid Mary herself.