Polly Morland
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022
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ExcellentA Fortunate Woman is a beautifully written and moving book that explores the life of a country doctor and the community she serves in a remote, wooded valley. It was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and was named the Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month and the Sunday Times Paperback of the Year. The book is praised for its lyrical prose and its deep emotional depth, and it offers a poignant portrait of contemporary medicine and the importance of patient-centered care.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, The Top Ten Bestseller Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month, and A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year, "A Fortunate Woman" is a book that will move you at the level of sentence, the quality of language, and the emotional depth of its subject matter. When Polly Morland is clearing out her mother's house, she finds a book that leads her to a remarkable figure living on her 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, as she knows her patients inside out and their stories are deeply entwined with her own.
In "A Fortunate Woman," 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. With its beautiful photographs by Richard Baker, Morland has created a work that is both lyrical and precise, sometimes seeming close to poetry.
The Sunday Times praised Morland's writing, stating that she writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry. The Financial Times also commended the book, calling it "timely, compelling, and a delicately drawn miniature." Kathleen Jamie, in the New Statesman, praised the book for deepening our understanding of the life and thoughts of a modern doctor and the modern NHS, and for expanding movingly to chronicle a community and a landscape.
"A Fortunate Woman" is a must-read for anyone who loves literature, medicine, or the natural world. It is a beautiful and inspiring book that will leave you feeling grateful for the people and places that shape our lives.
Weight: 230g
Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529071177
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