A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - The Top Ten Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

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Biography: literary

'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 A knock on Claire Rollins’s door late one evening reveals the missing woman’s mother standing on the front steps. Searching in three towns, in woods, and in the ocean, will Claire, with the help of her "intuition" and with her boyfriend, her best friend, and two Corgis by her side, find the killer before he strikes to silence the truth forever? This doctor is a rarity in contemporary medicine - she knows her patients inside out, and their stories are deeply entwined with her own. A young woman has disappeared from the campus of her college. 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.   Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize The Top Ten Bestseller Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe Top Ten BestsellerWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the MonthA 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 judgeWhen 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. by Morland, Polly, Baker, Richard | Biography & True Stories Published 09/06/2022 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom Hardback | 240 pages, 50 b/w plates

Published on 2 March 2023 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.

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• Dimensions (cm): 19.