More Tales from The Island Nurse

MARY J. MacLEOD was born in Somerset, educated in Bath and qualified as a state registered nurse in Bristol. Now retired, she worked as a nurse in Bristol, London, Bedfordshire and the Hebrides. She has four children, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren and lives in Cornwall with her husband and two dogs.

If the TV companies are looking for the next Heartbeat, it can be found in the windswept coasts of Papavray– THE DAILY RECORDThis lively and heartening memoir evokes both the hardships and the humour of island life.– THE SCOTSMANHer stories will ring true with every nurse — or anyone — who has ever cared for a family or community– LEANN THIEMANN, author of Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s Soul