from TerriS

I always enjoy this series. This "episode" is set in the 60's but flashes back to when he was a doctor in WWII on the "HMS Warspite." It also tells about his getting to know and becoming engaged to his first wife, Dierdre. It gives quite a bit of technical information about the ship he served on,...

from lamour

The novel is set in Ulster in 1939 &1966. It follows the continuous story of Doctor Fingal O'Reilly from earlier novels in the series. In this volume, he serves in the Royal Navy with alternate chapters covering his service on the Battleship Warspite in 1940 with his work as a doctor in 1966 rura...

from Diana_Long_Thomas

Re-read 2018 This book looks more in-depth at Dr. O'Reilly's time on a warship during World War II. It also has some flash-forwards to the late 1960's in Northern Ireland which is the present day for this series. There are fewer patients seen in this book, with more of every day, non-work, issues...

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Now I've got to read the sequel to find out what happened to Deirdre!

from scoutmomskf

It has been a while since my last visit to Ballybucklebo, and I frequently found myself wondering how Barry and Sue's romance was going, how Fingal and Kitty were settling into married life, and how the other residents of the village were doing. I finally pulled this book off the shelf and dove i...