A Fortunate Woman Av Polly Morland

<p><b>THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE<br>A <i>The Times </i>Book of the Year 2022<br>Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month</b><br><br>&lsquo;<b>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 <i>A Fortunate Woman</i> is definitely the book you should be reading</b>&rsquo; <b>- Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judge</b><br><br>When Polly Morland is clearing out her mother&rsquo;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 &ndash; she knows her patients inside out, and their stories are deeply entwined with her own.<br><br>In <i>A Fortunate Woman</i>, 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.<br><br><b>&lsquo;Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry&rsquo;<i> - </i>Christina Patterson, <i>The Sunday Times</i><br><br>&lsquo;Timely . . . compelling . . . a delicately drawn miniature&rsquo; - <i>Financial Times</i><br><br>&lsquo;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&rsquo; - Kathleen Jamie,<i> New Statesman</i></b></p>