A New Doctor at Orchard Cottage Hospital A BRAND NEW emotional historical saga series from BESTSELLER Lizzie Lane for 2024 by Lizzie Lane

 This was a lovely, uplifting book about a woman doctor who struggles to be accepted by a small village in Somerset where she works at a cottage hospital after The Great War. Saved from the workhouse as a baby by a determined suffragette, Frances decides to leave everything and devote her time to her career after losing her fiancee, and the woman who raised her. But lady doctors are regarded with contempt by some in the village, and there is also the evil Simon Grainger whose affair with Nurse Harrison won’t help Frances. Is the extremely agreeable and helpful vicar with his wonderful sense of humour too good to be true? Frances has a lot to contend with as she tries to pursue her new life.

The only thing that I didn’t like about this book is that Frances gives laxatives to a oatient to induce a miscarriage, which seemed pretty unethical to me. The reason is explained well but I thought that it was quite drastic, and some readers won’t like the aspersions on Catholicism. 

There are lots of different storylines here, so I am looking forward to the next installment.

I received this free book from NetGalley in return for an honest review.