A moving, evocative account of a rural GP in a remote rural location.
Polly Morland is a writer and documentary maker. She worked for fifteen years in television, producing and directing documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery. She is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines and is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University. She is the author of several books, including The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to Be Brave, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was a Sunday Times Book of the Year, and A Fortunate Woman.
Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such
lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry .
. . There has been no shortage in recent years of books about
healthcare . . . With this gem, Morland has done something similar
for general practice. Let's just hope the policymakers listen. --
Christina Patterson * Sunday Times *
The doctor's kindly, holistic approach - she makes time to
investigate her patients' social as well as physical needs - seems
to evoke a lost world . . . Morland's book contains a profound
message for the future at a critical moment for general practice
and us all. -- Wendy Moore * TLS *
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 - "the valley" itself is a
defining feature of people's lives. -- Kathleen Jamie * New
Statesman *
Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the
original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the
eye and mind in equal measure. --
I was consoled and compelled by this book's steady gaze on healing
and caring. The writing is beautiful. --
Superb - beautiful, enthralling, careful, tender, a humanitarian
act in itself, deeply moral, moving, lucid and loving. --
All human life is here in this evocative portrayal of the
challenges and joys of rural family doctoring in modern times.
Enthralling and uplifting. --
A Fortunate Woman is the best book I've read about general
practice for a long time. Astonishingly perceptive, it shows how a
committed GP can keep human values alive in an increasingly
impersonal NHS - and why we urgently need more like her. --
Professor Roger Neighbour OBE.
A vibrant and authentic portrait of the rural family doctor in
these difficult contemporary times. --
One of the best books about medicine that I have read. The
patients' stories are vivid, moving, often unforgettable. Polly
Morland has written with incredible sensitivity, appreciation and
descriptive ability about the valley and the people who live there
--
A Fortunate Woman is grounded in a legacy of care and
compassion for the community served, shared though a compelling
narrative based on patient stories. I loved it. --
I thought it was stunning in style and content and I hope it
encourages all readers to reflect on what I agree is your key
message - the importance of relationship-base care and the fact
that it is under threat. --
Beautifully and tenderly written, [A Fortunate Woman] also
serves as a topical reminder of what is possible with continuity of
care. -- * Bookseller *
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