A fortunate woman : a country doctor's story / Polly Morland ; with photographs by Richard Baker.

London : Picador, 2023.

235 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2022.

Polly Morland was clearing her late mother's house when she found a battered paperback fallen behind the family bookshelf. Opening it, she was astonished to see an old photograph of the remote, wooded valley in which she lives. The book was 'A Fortunate Man', John Berger's classic account of a country doctor working in the same valley more than half a century earlier. This chance discovery led Morland to the remarkable doctor who serves that valley community today, a woman whose own medical vocation was inspired by reading the very same book as a teenager. 'A Fortunate Woman' tells her compelling, true story, and how the tale of the old doctor has threaded through her own life in magical ways.

9781529071177 (pbk)

610.9'2
610.92

English

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