A Fortunate Woman

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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 and author of This Divided IslandWhen Polly Morland found a battered old paperback about a country doctor that had fallen behind her motherâ bookshelf, she realized that it was set in the remote, wooded valley in which she lives. This chance discovery of John Bergerâ classic A Fortunate Man led her to the remarkable doctor who serves that same community today.A rarity in contemporary medicine, she knows her patients inside out, their stories entwined with her own. Reflecting on the relationship between people and place, and upon the wider role of medicine in society, an intimate portrait of a twenty-first-century family doctor emerges. A love letter to a landscape, a community and, above all, to what it means to be a good doctor, A Fortunate Woman will speak to readers everywhere.Illustrated throughout with photographs by Richard Baker.‘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’ The 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, The New Statesman

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