"This novel celebrates the support system that family and friends can offer in difficult times. Leffler, a doctor beginning a career as a writer, writes with warmth and confidence about new beginnings."
Aleksandra Kostovski, Booklist
"I loved this book and loved its voice. How often is one both charmed and intrigued on page 1 and ever onward? (Less and less, I find.) Maggie Leffler's writing accomplishes that thing I enjoy the most: lively storytelling that is in equal parts wryly witty and touching."
Elinor Lipman, author, MY LATEST GRIEVANCE
"Maggie Leffler's is a fresh and welcome new voice. She's wise and funny, and THE DIAGNOSIS OF LOVE went straight to my heart."
Hilma Wolitzer, Author of THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER
"A young doctor learns the true meaning of 'physician, heal thyself' in Leffler's inspiring debut. Dr. Holly Campbell and her twin, Ben, attend a psychic's TV show in the hopes of achieving some closure after their mother's death. Her mother-via the medium-tells them someone's moving to England and congratulates Ben on his engagement. After Ben confesses his recent engagement to Alecia, a TV journalist, Holly impulsively decides to leave her Pittsburgh residency and her new boyfriend, Dr. Matthew Hollembee, to be a 'travel doc' in Winchester, England. There she must deal with childhood abandonment issues stemming from her mother's affair with a medical student in Grenada as well as sort out her feelings for Matthew and a cute English orderly she meets. Life becomes even more problematic after a frustrated Alecia arrives, needing help with other family challenges. Eventually, Holly discovers love can be a choice. Leffler, a practicing physician, infuses Holly's spiritual search with liberal doses of humor, exquisite insight and rich details about the U.K. medical profession.
Publishers Weekly Annex
THE DIAGNOSIS OF LOVE