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When newly qualified doctor Andrew Manson takes up his first post in a Welsh mining community, the young Scot brings with him a bagful of idealism and enthusiasm. Both are soon strained to the limit as Andrew discovers the reality of performing operations on a kitchen table and washing in a scullery, of unspeakable sanitation, of common infantile cholera and enteritis. There are no X-rays, no ambulances - nothing to combat the disease and poverty.
It isn't long before Andrew's outspokenness and determination make him enemies - as well as winning him friends, and the love of an idealistic schoolteacher. Riches that he risks losing when the fashionable, greedy world of London medicine claims him, with its private clinics, wealthy, spoilt patients and huge rewards.
A classic saga by one of the great masters of the genre, author of The Stars Look Down and Hatter's Castle, The Citadel is a moving story of tragedy, triumph and redemption, and was influential in the creation of the NHS.
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A.J. Cronin was perhaps the most successful novelist of the 1930s ... probably as significant a figure as J.B. Priestley (The English Historical Review)
Immensely successful, utterly ruthless (The Spectator)
One of the most popular authors in the English speaking world (New York Times)
A grand story, well told, and better balanced than anything else he has done (Kirkus)
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From the author of The Stars Look Down and The Citadel, and the creator of Dr Finlay's Casebook.
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- PublisherBello
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1447244559
- ISBN 13 9781447244554
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages432
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