An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War
An Irish Country Novel
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Narrated by:
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John Keating
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By:
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Patrick Taylor
About this listen
Doctor O'Reilly heeds the call to serve his country in Irish Doctor in Peace and At War, the 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 adherence to tradition is standing in the way of his son's future. Now older and wiser, O'Reilly has prescriptions for whatever ails…until a secret from the past threatens to unravel his own peace of mind.
Shifting deftly between two very different eras, Patrick Taylor's latest Irish Country novel reveals more about O'Reilly's tumultuous past, even as Ballybucklebo faces the future in its own singular fashion.
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- Fly London Lover
- 03-02-2021
Absolutely delightful
I have listened to this audiobook 4 times now and feel like the Characters are family.
I have every book in the series and just never get sick of listening to them. Each one is a gem and this one has a special place in my heart because, being set mostly during WWII and young Fingals war years, it mentions HMS Royal Oak, the first ship to be sunk at the start of war in Scapa Flow. Hundreds of boy seamen died that night. My Father, William Weir was one such 16 year old boy Seamen but obviously survived.
Apart from the wonderful story itself, the factual side is marvellous. I cannot find a thing to fault with this or any of the series. Excellent storylines, factual, humorous, absolutely superb narration.
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