A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story

di Polly Morland (Autore)

Richard Baker (Illustratore)

Pan Macmillan, 2023

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize The Top Ten Bestseller Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year ‘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’ - 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, New Statesman

• Autore: Polly Morland
• Illustratore: Richard Baker
• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 197 x 130 mm
• Peso: 229 gr.
• EAN: 9781529071177

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