A Miracle for Maggie

by Stephen Eaton Hume (Vancouver: Beach Holme Pub., 2000.)

ISBN: 0888784155

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Dive into the lives of two people affected by diabetes: the patient and the doctor!

Set in the early 1900s,  a young girl named Maggie Davis struggles from diabetes and her father and Doctor, Dr. Davis struggles with his attempt to find a cure for the disease. Maggie is devastated by the death of her uncle, who was also a diabetic, and the fact that there is no known cure for the disease frightens her. Her father, has made his number one priority his daughter's life and will stop at nothing until a cure is found. One day, Dr. Davis stumbles across an article in The Toronto Star with the headline "Toronto Doctors on Track of Diabetes Cure." Deserperation sends himself packing with his daughter for the long trip to Toronto in search of Dr. Banting to help save his daughter's life. As the story shifts from Chester to London, Ontario, and then to Toronto, the story of Dr. Banting and his struggle to find a purpose for his life unfolds. The novel reveals Dr. Banting's fight to find a sponsor for his research, which will enable him to finally find a cure.

Stephen Eaton Hume's realistic novel not only gives insight on how diabetes affects people living with the disease, but also how it affects people trying to bring the disease to an end! This book will have you enthralled right down until the last pages!