it's 1946 and the polio epidemic, but the boys on the ward are living it up!The Boys' Ward is fiction, and occasionally autobiographical. The author was on the boys' ward in 1946 at Boston's Children's Hospital and lived to tell about it. The vel is funny and tragic, naughty and ble, inspiring and comical, with song and dance, hydrotherapy and a funeral. Timmy Kelly, the hero, discusses everything from Karma to Darwin to the Cosmos. Think Huckleberry Finn meets Mark Twain meets Charles Dickens.