Author(s): Mohammed Hanif

Fiction

The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job. With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital bringing help to the thousands of patients littering the corridors. But her new life isn't easy and on top of everything else Alice impulsively falls for optimist and loveable good Teddy Butt - a ragtag law enforcement officer by night and a body builder by day. Can Alice and Teddy live happily ever after? Can the hospital survive? It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse and this is downtown Kerachi where the unusual is ordinary.