“A fine doctor he is. I’ve been on the same tablet for the last ten years and what do you think he did? Well, I’ll tell you what the fine doctor did – he tried to change my tablets! I’m lucky to still be alive. Well, he met his match in me, I’ll tell you, a widow going on ten years. By the time I was finished with him he was glad to give me the proper prescription."

Mrs M is just one of the wide assortment of characters you’ll meet in this book. You will meet the shrewd, the canny, the confident, the withdrawn; you’ll meet the worrier, the doubter, the unbeliever. They are all here. These tales, based on the life of an Irish doctor, run the gamut of human emotions, humorous, sad and poignant.