I have many feelings about the ‘wellness’ industry (which I touched on here and here, but to save you reading, the theme is ‘skeptical’), so I pounced on Katherine Brabon’s latest novel, Cure.

The story focuses on a mother and daughter, Vera and Thea. Vera has suffered an unnamed chronic illness since she was a teenager and, as she watches her daughter’s health follow a similar path, Vera becomes increasingly preoccupied with a blog written by a woman named Claudia, a mother whose daughter also has a chronic disease. Continue reading →