Tension builds as Margaret comes closer and closer to making the decision to undergo the procedure. The Lobotomist’s Wife follows Ruth as she learns of the devastating long-term effects following lobotomy, the steps she takes to confront the issue, and the resistance she encounters not only from her husband but from those she approaches to take action. She longs for relief and believes lobotomy may be her best hope. Margaret Baxter in 1952 is deeply depressed after the birth of her third child. He passionately adopts, promotes, and performs what he considers to be an instant cure for anxiety and psychosis-surgical separation of connections within the prefrontal area of the brain or lobotomy. She meets, falls in love, and marries Robert Apter, a handsome, charismatic neurologist. Inspired by a shocking chapter in medical history, The Lobotomist’s Wife is a galvanizing novel of a woman fighting against the most grievous odds, of ego, and of the best intentions gone horribly awry.Ruth Emeraldine runs the New York City public hospital for the insane founded by her father and carrying the family name in the 1930s. Only Ruth can save her and scores of others from the harrowing consequences of Robert’s ambitions. Apter diagnoses her with the baby blues and proposes a lobotomy, she believes the procedure is her only hope. Margaret can barely get out of bed, let alone care for her infant. And a vulnerable young mother, Margaret Baxter, is poised to be his next victim. Robert is operating on patients recklessly, often with horrific results. But as her husband spirals into deluded megalomania, Ruth can’t ignore her growing suspicions. Ruth believes in it as a miracle treatment and in Robert as its genius pioneer.
Then she falls in love with charismatic Robert Apter a brilliant doctor championing a radical new treatment, the lobotomy. Since her brother took his life after WWI, Ruth Emeraldine has had one goal: to help those suffering from mental illness.
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