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. Life in Ballybucklebo 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. 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. 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. Print run 100,000.
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