Thank you for joining me I have a lovely Guest Post today on the Blog Tour for A Country Practice by Judith Colquhoun.
Blurb:
A
heart-warming, poignant and engaging tale about the doctors, nurses
and patients of the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital, and their
friends and neighbours.
A Country Practice follows the dramas, loves, secrets and dilemmas of the people in an Australian small country town. There is romance, humour and tragedy for the medical staff of the local hospital, and the rural community it serves.
A desperate woman arrives at the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital in the final stages of labour. Can Dr Terence Elliott overcome his demons to save both mother and baby?
Simon Bowen, the newest doctor in town, is frustrated at being seen as an outsider by the tight knit country people. Will he succeed in winning them around ‒ especially young vet Vicky Dean?
Vicky’s mum, Sister Shirley Dean, is courted by widowed police sergeant Frank Gilroy. But is he the man for her?
Young married couple, Brendan and Molly Jones arrive in Wandin Valley. Are they prepared for the realities of country life?
Meanwhile, a teenager in love clashes with her father and a serious car accident reveals a surprising secret about two of the town’s residents.
Based on the
award-winning, international hit television serial A Country
Practice, this new series of novels follows the lives and loves
of the rural community of Wandin Valley, South-Eastern Australia. Set
in the early 1980s it is a nostalgic look at country life, yet with
all the same joys and problems we face today.
Links:
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Guest Post
A New
Life in the Country
Many
people who live in a big town or city have, at some point, fantasised
about ‘getting
away from it all’
and beginning a new life in the countryside. In A
Country Practice,
young Australian couple Molly and Brendan Jones make their dream a
reality, when they swap city living for a new start in the rural
community of Wandin Valley.
The move was Molly’s idea. Her
mother, Caroline, had never approved of Brendan. He was a nurse at
the city hospital – Caroline thought that her daughter should have
married a doctor! Molly knew that their marriage would be much
happier away from her disapproving mum’s interference.
At
first, the locals in Wandin Valley don’t know what to make of Molly
and Brendan. Molly’s bright clothes and glittered gum boots aren’t
exactly the typical fashion style for country people. And some of the
town’s older residents need time to get used to the idea of a male
nurse.
Molly
also raises eyebrows when her mother’s house-warming present, a
fancy chandelier, ends up gracing the sty of their pet pig, Doris!
In fact, Molly’s love of animals sometimes makes it hard for her to
accept the need for a more practical and less sentimental attitude in
the countryside.
The
Joneses aren’t the only outsiders in town. Simon Bowen is a
good-looking young doctor from a wealthy family. His father and
grandfather are both famous surgeons, but Simon hasn’t quite
matched their success. That’s why he’s ended up in general
practice in what he calls ‘this
hick town’.
But he does have a soft spot for the locals, and is determined to be
accepted by them. Simon especially likes the local vet, Vicky, who
isn’t at all impressed by his brash ways. It remains to be seen
whether his charm can win her over.
Sandra Myers is another
out-of-towner, who makes a dramatic arrival in Wandin Valley.
Pregnant Sandra goes into labour, but it is touch and go whether the
doctors can save her baby, and they are puzzled when Sandra insists
she doesn’t want her husband to know where she is. Sandra will pose
quite a challenge for the doctors and nurses of the Wandin Valley
Bush Nursing Hospital.
Join Molly and Brendan as they
learn about the dramas, loves, secrets and dilemmas of the people in
a small country town. Like them, you’ll soon learn that life in the
country isn’t as quiet as you might think, in fact there’s never
a dull moment!
Ian Skillicorn, publisher at
Corazon Books
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About the author:
Judith Colquhoun was born in Queensland and grew up in Sydney. She
studied production at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and soon
after graduating, love and a job took her to Melbourne. Later, she
lived in London for a time, spent many years in country Victoria and
long enough in Italy to fall in love with the Mezzogiorno. She is now
back in Melbourne and may even stay there.
She started writing
when she was six and from the age of twenty-three has always earned
her living from it in one way or another. She was a scriptwriter for
far too long, writing countless hours of television for many of
Australia’s most popular shows, including Neighbours and
Home & Away. Her output included one hundred episodes of A
Country Practice.
Judith has worked as
an editor and script producer, and in Italy was a script consultant
on the serial Un Posto Al Sole. She has won five Awgie Awards
and in 2007 was made a Life Member of the Australian Writers’
Guild.
In 2009 she finally
gave up scriptwriting to attempt a novel. Thicker Than Water,
which is largely set in southern Italy, was published in 2014. It was
Highly Commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers 2014
National Literary Awards.
She has written
three novels based on the stories and characters of A Country
Practice – New Beginnings, To Everything a Season
and Silver Linings.
Judith is married
with two children and three grandchildren.
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