Description
| Product ID: | 9781529071177 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Fortunate Woman |
| Subtitle: | A Country Doctor’s Story |
| Authors: | Author: Polly Morland, Richard Baker |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Rural communities, Doctor / patient relationship, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Rural communities, Doctor/patient relationship |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A moving, evocative account of a rural GP in a remote location. <p><b>Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize<br>The Top Ten Bestseller<br>Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month<br>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Paperback of the Year </b><br><br>‘<b>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 <i>A Fortunate Woman</i> is definitely the book you should be reading</b>’ <b>- Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judge</b><br><br>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.<br><br>In <i>A Fortunate Woman</i>, 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.<br><br><b>‘Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry’<i> - </i>Christina Patterson, <i>The Sunday Times</i><br><br>‘Timely . . . compelling . . . a delicately drawn miniature’ - <i>Financial Times</i><br><br>‘This book deepens our understanding of the life and thoughts of a modern doctor, and the modern NHS, and it expands movingly to chronicle a community and a landscape’ - Kathleen Jamie,<i> New Statesman</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-02 |