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Polly Morland - A Fortunate Woman
Polly Morland's book A Fortunate Woman was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022. We are delighted she is coming to talk about the book at our Ross on Wye shop.
When Polly 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.
In A Fortunate Woman, 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.
'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
When Polly 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.
In A Fortunate Woman, 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.
'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
Thursday 8 Jun 2023
Rossiter Books, High Street, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire HR9 5HL
7pmTicket £6 each
£3 off the book at the event
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