'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 JudgeWhen Polly Morland found a battered old paperback about a country doctor that had fallen behind her mother's bookshelf, she realized that it was set in the remote, wooded valley in which she lives. This chance discovery of John Berger's 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 Fortunate Woman, illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs by Richard Baker, is a love letter to a landscape, a community and, above all, to what it means to be a good doctor. '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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