An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War

✍ Scribed by Taylor, Patrick

• Book ID: 109290773
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 716 KB
• Series: Irish Country 9
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780765338365

✦ Synopsis

Doctor O 'Reilly heeds the call to serve his country in this new novel in Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series

Long before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly became a fixture in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young M.B. with plans to marry midwife Dierdre Mawhinney. Those plans were complicated by the outbreak of World War II and the call of duty. Assigned to the HMS Warspite , a formidable 30,000-ton battleship, Surgeon Lieutenant O'Reilly soon found himself face-to-face with the hardships of war, tending to the dreadnought's crew of 1,200 as well as to the many casualties brought aboard.
Life in Ballybuckebo is a far cry from the strife of war, but over two decades later O'Reilly and his younger colleagues still have plenty of challenges: an outbreak of German measles, the odd tropical disease, a hard-fought pie-baking contest, and a local man whose mule-headed...