{"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. The writing is beautiful.\u003c\/em\u003e Sarah Moss, author of \u003cem\u003eSummerwater\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGhost Wall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA vibrant and authentic portrait of the rural family doctor in these difficult contemporary times.\u003c\/em\u003e Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care at the University of Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240564240620,"sku":"9781529071146","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529071146-a-fortunate-woman-1.jpg?v=1787919440","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/a-fortunate-woman-by-polly-morland-9781529071146","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}