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Kimmery Martin’s Cure for Chaos
Kimmery Martin, a former ER doctor, says she started her first novel “in a fit of misguided confidence.”
The physician-turnednovelist welcomes us into her modern, light-filled Cotswold home office before the February publication of her second novel, The Antidote for Everything
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BY TAYLOR BOWLER
“I HAVE 45 MINUTES to an hour of complete and total chaos getting the kids out the door,” Kimmery Martin says with a laugh as she describes a typical morning in the Cotswold home she shares with her husband, an orthopedic surgeon, and her three children, ages 15, 13, and 9. “None of us are calm people at my house.” Fueled by coffee—and 30 minutes of Pilates—Martin then retreats to her home office, where she spends a few hours tackling the email backlog, writing articles, and keeping up with her social media accounts. “Then the carnage starts up again in the afternoon when the kids get home,” she says. I first met Martin two years ago at my book group, where she led the discussion on her first novel, The Queen of Hearts. The story, set in Charlotte, had little winks and nods to places we all frequented: Selwyn Avenue Pub, Queens Road West, the car pool line. Aside from
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