{"product_id":"a-fortunate-woman-a-country-doctors-story","title":"A Fortunate Woman : A Country Doctor's Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eolly Morland was clearing her late mother's house when she found a battered paperback fallen behind the family bookshelf.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOpening 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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. Revisiting 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIllustrated throughout with photographs by Richard Baker.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polly Morland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43559978402049,"sku":"9781529071177","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/products\/SIMPLEWEBSITEPRODUCTIMAGE-2023-03-02T110920.265.png?v=1677755368","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/a-fortunate-woman-a-country-doctors-story","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}