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A Country Practice #2
To Everything a Season
The second book in the heart-warming and engaging series about the friends and neighbours of the Australian country town of Wandin Valley - and the doctors, nurses and patients of the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital.
The town is divided over the arrival of seasonal workers to help with the harvest. While some welcome their help at a busy time of year, others feel they pose a threat to the community. For many of them this will be a harvest like no other, and several lives will be changed forever before the season ends.
When Molly throws herself into country life, she discovers that it can bring both danger and heartache. Meanwhile, Brendan continues to win over patients and staff at the hospital.
Dr Simon Bowen befriends a spirited elderly patient. But what secrets is Emily Page hiding, and what plans does she have in mind for Simon?
As Vicky and Molly's friendship grows, Frank continues in his quest to win Shirley's heart.
Meanwhile, a young widow and mother must face her demons. Can she learn to let go of the past and love again? And one of Terence's patients must decide whether to stand up to her overbearing father and make a life for herself.
Based on the award-winning, international hit television serial A Country Practice.
The town is divided over the arrival of seasonal workers to help with the harvest. While some welcome their help at a busy time of year, others feel they pose a threat to the community. For many of them this will be a harvest like no other, and several lives will be changed forever before the season ends.
When Molly throws herself into country life, she discovers that it can bring both danger and heartache. Meanwhile, Brendan continues to win over patients and staff at the hospital.
Dr Simon Bowen befriends a spirited elderly patient. But what secrets is Emily Page hiding, and what plans does she have in mind for Simon?
As Vicky and Molly's friendship grows, Frank continues in his quest to win Shirley's heart.
Meanwhile, a young widow and mother must face her demons. Can she learn to let go of the past and love again? And one of Terence's patients must decide whether to stand up to her overbearing father and make a life for herself.
Based on the award-winning, international hit television serial A Country Practice.
232 pages, ebook
First published November 2, 2015
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February 11, 2017
As with book 2, I read this one in the same day (flu so in bed all day!).
Nostalgic and gently paced, this is an easy read, and being tied in with the TV show, it's really nice to put faces to the names.
As I read more, and the character of Brendan Jones' face was in my head, I was compelled to check out Google and find out that Shane Withinton was the actor playing Brendan in A Country Practice. He now plays John Palmer in Home and Away...I had never put the two together until today :)
If you watched A Country Practice in the 80's, you'll thoroughly enjoy these books.
Nostalgic and gently paced, this is an easy read, and being tied in with the TV show, it's really nice to put faces to the names.
As I read more, and the character of Brendan Jones' face was in my head, I was compelled to check out Google and find out that Shane Withinton was the actor playing Brendan in A Country Practice. He now plays John Palmer in Home and Away...I had never put the two together until today :)
If you watched A Country Practice in the 80's, you'll thoroughly enjoy these books.
January 24, 2016
Review first posted on my blog 'A Spoonful of Happy Endings' - http://spoonfulofhappyendings.blogspo...
‘A Country Practice: To Everything a Season’ takes its readers back to Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital to catch up with some familiar faces that also made an appearance in the first part of the ‘A Country Practice’ series. Molly and her husband Brendan are still busy settling in in the farm house they bought. With Brendan working long hours as a nurse in the hospital, Molly is left to her own devices and tries her best to make farming life work for her. Doctor Simon Bowen befriends elderly lady Emily Page; a lovely woman who seems to be hiding a secret, while doctor Terence Elliott tries his best to help out a new family that has come to town to help with the season’s fruit picking. All villagers are dealing with everyday life in their small country town in their own way, showing that no matter the season, there’s always something going on in Wandin Valley...
Last year I got the chance to check out the first part of Judith Colquhoun’s ‘A Country Practice’ book series, based on the same-titled TV-show set in the early 1980s, and it was great to once again travel to Wandin Valley and catch up with all the familiar faces. It’s easy to warm to characters such as doctors Simon and Terence, local vet Vicky, and my personal favourite couple, Molly and Brendan. However, some new characters were also introduced such as Alex and his daughter-in-law Silvia, who have come to town to help with the fruit picking. There are numerous characters the book focuses on, continually switching from one storyline to another, which definitely held my attention and made me curious to keep on reading.
As mentioned before, this book series is based on the award-winning TV-show ‘A Country Practice’, and I have to admit I felt like the book was also still written as a TV-show. The story is fast-paced and continually switches from one storyline and group of characters to another, just like a TV-drama. Unfortunately, the book also doesn’t provide too much in-depth detail and background stories on the characters, which I think is a real shame. I’d love to learn more about these characters and why they do and say specific things. I guess I’d love the book to read more like a novel than as a TV-show turned to paper. However, I still really enjoyed this second part of the series; it was an entertaining and fast-paced read, and I am already looking forward to visiting Wandin Valley again for the third time sometime soon, hopefully!
‘A Country Practice: To Everything a Season’ takes its readers back to Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital to catch up with some familiar faces that also made an appearance in the first part of the ‘A Country Practice’ series. Molly and her husband Brendan are still busy settling in in the farm house they bought. With Brendan working long hours as a nurse in the hospital, Molly is left to her own devices and tries her best to make farming life work for her. Doctor Simon Bowen befriends elderly lady Emily Page; a lovely woman who seems to be hiding a secret, while doctor Terence Elliott tries his best to help out a new family that has come to town to help with the season’s fruit picking. All villagers are dealing with everyday life in their small country town in their own way, showing that no matter the season, there’s always something going on in Wandin Valley...
Last year I got the chance to check out the first part of Judith Colquhoun’s ‘A Country Practice’ book series, based on the same-titled TV-show set in the early 1980s, and it was great to once again travel to Wandin Valley and catch up with all the familiar faces. It’s easy to warm to characters such as doctors Simon and Terence, local vet Vicky, and my personal favourite couple, Molly and Brendan. However, some new characters were also introduced such as Alex and his daughter-in-law Silvia, who have come to town to help with the fruit picking. There are numerous characters the book focuses on, continually switching from one storyline to another, which definitely held my attention and made me curious to keep on reading.
As mentioned before, this book series is based on the award-winning TV-show ‘A Country Practice’, and I have to admit I felt like the book was also still written as a TV-show. The story is fast-paced and continually switches from one storyline and group of characters to another, just like a TV-drama. Unfortunately, the book also doesn’t provide too much in-depth detail and background stories on the characters, which I think is a real shame. I’d love to learn more about these characters and why they do and say specific things. I guess I’d love the book to read more like a novel than as a TV-show turned to paper. However, I still really enjoyed this second part of the series; it was an entertaining and fast-paced read, and I am already looking forward to visiting Wandin Valley again for the third time sometime soon, hopefully!
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