{"product_id":"9781529071177","title":"A Fortunate Woman : A Country Doctor’s Story - The Top Ten Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Morland, Polly \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/03\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 256 pages, 50 b\/w plates,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529071177,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted 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. This doctor is a rarity in contemporary medicine – she knows her patients inside out, and their stories are deeply entwined with her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40925132292140,"sku":"9781529071177","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529071177_9e7975ac-5691-4861-8fec-0dad2aa28f77.jpg?v=1759658703","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529071177","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}