I love this authors books and this one was no exception. Charming and heartwarming. A delightful read.

Good book. Good author. Loved the characters and the plot. Look forward to reading more of her work.

I really enjoyed the book, it has everything I love in a novel from start to finish. I can’t wait to read what the author has planned next!

This book reminded me of "Call the Midwife" and "The Indian Doctor" but set a dozen or so years earlier. There was a fair amount of medical detail and the bits about the startup of the NHS were particularly interesting. The book was well written but I did find Connie a slightly frustrating character. I don't know whether I would have enjoyed the story more if I had read the previous story of Connie.

I was introduced to this book by Sam over at Sam Still Reading with her review of Wedding Bells for Nurse Connie. I placed it on my 'would like to read' list of books and finally I reached it. I have always been a little partial to medical fiction/romance, with a long history of Sue Barton when growing up and then everything I could lay my hands on written by Lucilla Andrews, including her memoir which receives a mention at the end of the book. Although that was just one book that she used for research, there were many, and it shows. The book rings with authenticity of the time period just after WW11 when England was changing over to a National Health Service.

Connie is a capable, compassionate nurse and she carries out her role in varying circumstances, always thinking of her patients and going the extra mile for them. Often it is not easy in the face of challenges that old, uncaring traditionalists bring to their roles. Take a doctor and a priest to showcase the worst of their species. I loved how Connie helped her patients and in some cases changed things up for them. Her boyfriend Malcolm was a bit of dead wood, and his mother was something else!

Coming to rescue the practice from an unscrupulous doctor, Dr. Hari MacLaughlan - part Indian, part Scottish, comes into the picture, sets the nurses a-twittering and while horrified at what he finds in his new place of work and living quarters, sets about bringing some decent medicine to the area. He works with Connie's nurses at Fry House, and its not long before Hari is noting that Malcolm doesn't seem to appreciate Connie all that much, even though there is a wedding date set. Dr. Hari meets a fair bit of discrimination which would have been typical of that time, very overt. However he handles it really well, he is an old hand and there is not too much you can throw at him as he has been a Japanese war prisoner.

I enjoyed the book, I felt like I was right in the middle of a drama TV series - the details were rich and gave a very full picture of the life and times of the various characters in the district and in Connie's family and nursing area.