Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

Booklist says this is "for James Herriot fans, without the animals. The book feels like a letter from a friend who has an eye for travel writing." From the publisher: "Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on 'a small acre' of land. Her account of the enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends. In anecdotes that are by turns funny, sad, moving, and tragic, she recalls them all. Against the old-fashioned island culture and the grandeur of mountain and sea unfold indelible stories."