About the Book: Historical fiction with a Dickensian cast of characters, "The Road to Wellville" tells three stories: the troubled marriage between ailing Will Lightbody and his health-nut wife Eleanor; the intrepid cereal entrepreneur Charles Ossining; and alternative medicine guru John Harvey Kellogg and his "Temple of Health." Author Boyle tackles the subject of early 20th-century health fads and crazes with humor and plenty of historical detail.