Description
When 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.
‘Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry’ – Christina Patterson
‘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
‘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 judge
