MY REVIEW
Family
Affairs at the Orchard Cottage Hospital is the second book in Lizzie Lane’s
latest saga series set in the fictional town of Norton Dene.
In this
instalment, Doctor Frances Brakespeare is embarking on a mission to bring
family planning into the homes and consciences of the women struggling to
survive the very real prospect of poverty while fighting to provide for their
children and keep their husbands happy. An easy mission, it is not!
On top of
this, Frances has more than enough to deal with when the sister of her adoptive
mother takes umbrage to Frances keeping the gentry family name. A name that
means everything to Frances, both personally and professionally.
I
thoroughly enjoyed this book, maybe even a little more than the first in the
series, A New Doctor at Orchard Cottage hospital – recommended!
Family Affairs at Orchard Cottage Hospital
Times are changing as secrets unfold…
Somerset, 1931
Doctor Frances Brakespeare continues to settle into her new life in rural Somerset at Orchard
Cottage Hospital, striving to improve the medical treatments on offer to the community.
After successfully establishing a mother and baby clinic, Frances is determined to move with the
times and add family planning advice to her roster – but are the residents of Norton Dene ready for
such progress or will she face opposition?
In her personal life, her relationship with the Reverend Gregory Sampson becomes her safe haven
whilst battling with an embittered family relative in London. As always, Frances strives to honour the
values inherited from her late benefactress Izzy Brakespeare.
As further dark family secrets and sins unfold, it seems the Brakespeare family name will have more
resonance to Frances than she ever imagined and when a stranger enters her life, Frances may
finally have the answers she has always sought.
Author Bio –
Lizzie Lane is the author of over 50 books, a number of which have been bestsellers. She was born
and bred in Bristol where many of her family worked in the cigarette and cigar factories, this inspired
her saga series for Boldwood The Tobacco Girls.
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