Call the Nurse
True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse Series, Book One)By MacLeod, Mary J
Length8h 53m
About this audiobook
For fans of James Herriot and Call the Midwife. A Wall Street Journal Bestseller. Over 100,000 sold. Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland.“Julia MacLeod shares unique and enchanting experiences as a nurse in rural Scotland. Her stories will ring true with every nurse—or anyone—who has ever cared for a family or a community, whether in Scotland or America. Call the Nurse is a delightful read.” —LeAnn Thieman, author Chicken Soup for the Nurse's SoulTired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod (known to all as Julia) and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land.Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the first enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends.Call the Nurse is a treasure of sweet nostalgia.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (2)
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 5, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword by Lady Claire Macdonald of Macdonald 5
2Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
3Prologue Nostalgia
4One On Papavray
5Two Meeting Alistair
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6Three A ‘small acre’
7Four Katy
8Five A nurse’s nightmare
9Six Back to work
10Seven A castle and a corpus
11Eight Deep ditches and high hills
12Nine A ceilidh and a cold corner
13Ten Flora and Annie
14Eleven Jaynie’s baby
15Twelve Bones and boats!
16Thirteen ‘The terrible, terrible thing’
17Fourteen The terrible, terrible truth
18Fifteen The wedding
19Sixteen Disaster at Dochart Bay
20Seventeen A fragile Fergie and a shopping spree
21Eighteen Something on the shore
22Nineteen Nicholas
23Twenty God’s country
24Twenty-One Farewell to Chreileh
25Twenty-Two The return to roots
26Twenty-Three Andrew
27Twenty-Four Wedding bells (without the bells)
28Twenty-Five Searching the seas
29Twenty-Six Shearing in the sunshine
30Twenty-Seven Rowing boats and rucksacks
31Twenty-Eight Peat, trees, and trouble
32Twenty-Nine Just another day
33Thirty Silent stones and a sad spirit
34Thirty-One Helping hands
35Thirty-Two The signpost
36Thirty-Three A bonny baby and some cheery children
37Thirty-Four Diy island style
38Thirty-Five Echo House
39Thirty-Six To the rescue!
40Thirty-Seven ‘Arry’s island
41Thirty-Eight Old folks’ secrets
42Thirty-Nine John and Joanna
43Forty Days of ice and fog
44Forty-One Lucky Johnny Peg-Leg
45Forty-Two Fire!
46Epilogue Just a dream?
47Glossary
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