A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story

Name: A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story
Author: Polly Morland
ISBN: 9781529071153

Polly Morland

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A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story

Polly Morland

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A Fortunate Woman won the Baillie Gifford Prize, was a Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month, and was a Sunday Times Paperback of the Year. When 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.

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