Memoirs from the Shetland Isles: A Fair Isle Nurse (Sep)

Often surrounded by sea mist or racked by relentless gales, the island of Fair Isle runs to its own rhythms.

In the mid 1960s, a young nurse arrived to begin working here, one of the most remote inhabited islands in?Britain.

She would be the sole provider of medical care for the island's population.

Her coming of age was dependent on the acceptance, support and kindness of the Fair Isle People.

Would she succeed??

Mona McAlpine's heartwarming memoir is the life-affirming first part of her best-selling Shetland trilogy, and a captivating account of a unique island community.