{"title":"Polly Morland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly Morland\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into ordinary lives marked by extraordinary circumstances. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, explore themes of resilience and humanity through compelling narrative biographies and memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful and empathetic storytelling that delves into the nuances of character and experience, inviting reflection on the quiet complexities of real lives beyond the headlines.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-fortunate-woman-by-polly-morland-9781529071177","title":"A Fortunate Woman","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf 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\u003c\/em\u003e - Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMorland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry\u003c\/em\u003e - Christina Patterson, The Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimely . . . compelling . . . a delicately drawn miniature\u003c\/em\u003e - Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 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\u003c\/em\u003e - Kathleen Jamie, New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240564207852,"sku":"9781529071177","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529071177-a-fortunate-woman-1.jpg?v=1787919423"},{"product_id":"a-fortunate-woman-by-polly-morland-9781529071146","title":"A Fortunate Woman","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure.\u003c\/em\u003e Alain de Botton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country doctor. Funny, moving and not afraid of the dark, it will speak to readers everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePolly Morland was clearing her late mother's house when she found a battered paperback fallen behind the family bookshelf. Opening it, she was astonished to see an old photograph of the remote, wooded valley in which she lives. The book was \u003cem\u003eA Fortunate Man\u003c\/em\u003e, John Berger's classic account of a country doctor working in the same valley more than half a century earlier. This chance discovery led Morland to the remarkable doctor who serves that valley community today, a woman whose own medical vocation was inspired by reading the very same book as a teenager.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/em\u003e tells her compelling, true story, and how the tale of the old doctor has threaded through her own life in magical ways. Working within a community she loves, she is a rarity in contemporary medicine: a modern doctor who knows her patients inside out, the lives of this ancient, wild place entwined with her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevisiting Berger's story after half a century of seismic change, both in our society and in the ways in which medicine is practised, \u003cem\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/em\u003e sheds light on what it means to be a doctor in today's complex and challenging world. Interweaving the doctor's story with those of her patients, reflecting on the relationship between landscape and community, and upon the wider role of medicine in society, a unique portrait of a twenty-first century family doctor emerges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout with photographs by Richard Baker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll human life is here in this evocative portrayal of the challenges and joys of rural family doctoring in modern times. Enthralling and uplifting.\u003c\/em\u003e James LeFanu, author \u003cem\u003eThe Rise \u0026amp; Fall of Modern Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI was consoled and compelled by this book's steady gaze on healing and caring. 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