Woman's War

In a small English country town, two doctors' wives wage a quiet, devastating war. Katherine Murchison is married to the trusted physician everyone reveres. Betty Steele is bound to Parker Steele, a man whose brilliance is undermined by drink. What begins as judgment and moral certainty slowly erodes as both women discover that the line between virtue and vice is far more porous than they imagined. Warwick Deeping, drawing on his upbringing as a doctor's son, exposes addiction's toll not just on the alcoholic but on everyone within reach: the spouse who stays, the neighbor who judges, the children who absorb the tension like poison. The war between Katherine and Betty escalates in ways neither foresaw, forcing each to confront her own capacity for cruelty, compromise, and unexpected grace.