{"product_id":"polly-morland-a-fortunate-woman-2023-paperback","title":"Polly Morland: A Fortunate Woman [2023] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize\u003cbr\u003eThe Top Ten Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year\u003cbr\u003eWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\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 \u003ci\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is definitely the book you should be reading\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003e- Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Fortunate Woman\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry'\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eChristina Patterson, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Timely . . . compelling . . . a delicately drawn miniature' - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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,\u003ci\u003e New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morland, Polly \u0026 Baker, Richard","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49517931856211,"sku":"9781529071177","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47091688046931,"sku":"XG81529071177","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/morland-polly-baker-richard-polly-morland-a-fortunate-woman-2023-paperback-59237776130387.jpg?v=1743763785","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/polly-morland-a-fortunate-woman-2023-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}