An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country Books)

by Patrick Taylor | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0765319950 Global Overview for this book
Registered by sally906 of Toowoomba, Queensland Australia on 6/25/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by sally906 from Toowoomba, Queensland Australia on Friday, June 25, 2010
Barry Laverty is fresh out of Medical school and answers an ad for a doctor’s assistant in Ballybucklebo, a small country village in Northern Ireland that he can hardly find on a map. He is immediately hired by Dr Fingle O’Reilly. The older doctor has his own distinct way of practising medicine. At first, Barry can’t decide if the confrontational O’Reilly is the biggest quack or the best teacher he has ever met, he soon realises that it is the latter. O’Reilly is unique – as sharp as a tack, wise to the ways of his patients and compassionate.

Set in the 1960’s modern medicine is striding forward by leaps and bounds, yet the inhabitants still like the old ways. When modern young Dr Laverty hands a script for penicillin they look to old Dr O’Reilly to give them the traditional wee black bottle full of nasty tasting ‘jollop’.

There are a multitude of eccentric characters who manage to make every day an education for the inexperienced young doctor. There is the town drunk and ne’er-do-well husband, a hypochondriac, an arrogant land owner, a proud man who lives in a car with his beloved dogs, a sick child, and an unwed mother who refuses to tell who the father is. Barry Laverty soon learns that he needs to find out a lot more about life than he ever imagined back in medical school.

AN IRISH COUNTRY DOCTOR was an easy, quick, read that I could hardly put down. The gentle humour throughout the book was wonderful and I loved watching the relationship gradually grow between the two doctors, and I soon became completely involved in the lives of the two doctors. The novel was beautifully written that it held my attention from the first page until the last.

Journal Entry 2 by sally906 at Casuarina, Northern Territory Australia on Friday, June 25, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (6/25/2010 UTC) at Casuarina, Northern Territory Australia

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Journal Entry 3 by amberC at Darwin, Northern Territory Australia on Saturday, June 26, 2010
Picked up at the meet-up.

Journal Entry 4 by amberC at Darwin, Northern Territory Australia on Friday, January 18, 2013
Loved the characters, loved the humour. Didn't want to put it down. A lovely, gentle, feelgood read.

Journal Entry 5 by amberC at Darwin, Northern Territory Australia on Friday, January 18, 2013

Released 11 yrs ago (1/18/2013 UTC) at Darwin, Northern Territory Australia

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Journal Entry 6 by Chania at Kokkola, Keski-Pohjanmaa / Mellersta Österbotten Finland on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Thank You, this looks like a lovely book!

Journal Entry 7 by Chania at Kokkola, Keski-Pohjanmaa / Mellersta Österbotten Finland on Monday, May 27, 2013
Oh, what a nice book indeed! Very quick to read (probably because it was so interesting and I got involved in the life in Ballybucklebo completely!) and just like amberC said earlier, a feelgood read!

Now sending this to Kirjakko in the wishlist tag- game. I am also joining the Finnish 52-weeks release challenge with this, and my theme this week will be GREEN. It is so lovely green in nature here now, when the summer has just began, and of course Ireland is the GREEN island!

Journal Entry 8 by wingkirjakkowing at Sipoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Thursday, May 30, 2013
The cover looks lovely and I do judge aa book by its cover - to begin with.

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