A Fortunate Woman - A Country Doctor's Story SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2022 (Paperback)

'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 Judge 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. 'Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry' Christina Patterson, The Sunday Times 'Timely . . . compelling . . . a delicately drawn miniature' The Financial Times '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, The New Statesman

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2023
Authors:	Polly Morland
Illustrators:	Richard Baker
Dimensions:	197 x 130mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-5290-7117-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities Books > Biography > Literary Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering Promotions
LSN:	1-5290-7117-8
Barcode:	9781529071177

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