A fortunate woman

Name: A fortunate woman
Author: Polly Morland
ISBN: 9781529071177

by Polly Morland

ISBN: 9781529071177

Published: 2023-03-02

Physicians

'If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of language and with the emotional depth of its subject matter, then A Fortunate Woman is definitely the book you should be reading' - Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judgeWhen Polly Morland is clearing out her mother's house she finds a book that will lead her to a remarkable figure living on her own doorstep: the country doctor who works in the same remote, wooded valley she has lived in for many years. This doctor is a rarity in contemporary medicine - she knows her patients inside out, and their stories are deeply entwined with her own.In A Fortunate Woman, with its beautiful photographs by Richard Baker, Polly Morland has written a profoundly moving love letter to a landscape, a community and, above all, to what it means to be a good doctor.'Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry' - Christina...

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