<p><b>Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize<br>The Top Ten Bestseller<br>Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month<br>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Paperback of the Year </b><br><br>‘<b>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 <i>A Fortunate Woman</i> is definitely the book you should be reading</b>’ <b>- Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judge</b><br><br>When Polly Morland 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.<b