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When she stepped off the coach from Sussex, on a warm and sticky afternoon in the summer of 1757, it never occurred to her that the city would be the place where shed make her fortune; she was just very annoyed to be arriving there at all.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMeet Endurance Proudfoot, the bonesetters daughter: clumsy as a carthorse, with a tactless tongue and a face shes sure only a mother could love. Durie only wants one thing in life  to follow her father and grandfather into the family business of bonesetting. Its a physically demanding job, requiring strength, nerves of steel and discretion  and not the job for a woman.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut Durie isnt like other women. Shes strong and stubborn and determined to get her own way. 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