Healing Lives

Sue Williams

PAN MACMILLAN

When

Dr Catherine

Hamlin and her husband saved the life of Mamitu

Gashe, an illiterate 14-year- old peasant girl, at the Addis

Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia they set up in 1962, the girl and doctor became more than firm friends. Under the doctor’s guidance, Gashe went from mopping floors to becoming one of the most acclaimed fistula surgeons in the world, despite never having had a day’s schooling. A moving true story of a friendship that saved the lives of 60,000 of some of the world’s poorest women.