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An Irish doctor in love and at sea

Summary: Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, young Surgeon-lieutenant O'Reilly answered the call of duty to serve in World War II. Fingal just wants to marry his beloved Deirdre and live happily ever after. First he must hone his skills at a British naval hospital before reporting back to the HMS Warspite, where, as a ship's doctor, he faces danger upon the high seas. With German bombers a constant threat, the future has never been more uncertain, but Fingal and Deirdre are determined to make a life together... no matter what may lie ahead. Decades later, the war is long over, and O'Reilly is content to mend the bodies and souls of his patients in Ballybucklebo, but there are still changes and challenges aplenty. A difficult pregnancy, as well as an old colleague badly in denial concerning his own serious medical condition, tests O'Reilly and his young partner, Barry Laverty. But even with all that occupies him in the present, can O'Reilly ever truly let go of the ghosts from his past?

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  • ISBN: 9780765378200 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 495 pages ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Forge Books, 2015.
Subject: Northern Ireland -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, British -- Fiction
Country life -- Northern Ireland -- Fiction
Veterans -- Fiction
Physicians -- Fiction
Ballybucklebo (Northern Ireland : Imaginary place) -- Fiction
O'Reilly, Fingal Flahertie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Genre: Medical fiction.
Pastoral fiction.
Sea stories.
Canadian fiction.

Available copies

  • 24 of 28 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Chetwynd Public Library. (Show preferred library)

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Chetwynd Public Library Fic Tay (Text) 35222000912989 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Burns Lake Public Library AF TAY (Text) 35198000556606 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library FIC TAY (Text) 35146001942358 Fiction Volume hold Available -
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Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library F TAY (Text) DCL151176 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Elkford Public Library FC TAY (Text) 35170000383505 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort Nelson Public Library FIC TAY (Text) 35246000868966 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort St. James Public Library TAY (Irish Country #10) (Text) 35196001006118 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort St. John Public Library AF TAY (Text) 35211000289688 ADULT Fiction Volume hold Available -
Invermere Public Library FIC TAY (Text) IPL051336 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

Summary: Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, young Surgeon-lieutenant O'Reilly answered the call of duty to serve in World War II. Fingal just wants to marry his beloved Deirdre and live happily ever after. First he must hone his skills at a British naval hospital before reporting back to the HMS Warspite, where, as a ship's doctor, he faces danger upon the high seas. With German bombers a constant threat, the future has never been more uncertain, but Fingal and Deirdre are determined to make a life together... no matter what may lie ahead. Decades later, the war is long over, and O'Reilly is content to mend the bodies and souls of his patients in Ballybucklebo, but there are still changes and challenges aplenty. A difficult pregnancy, as well as an old colleague badly in denial concerning his own serious medical condition, tests O'Reilly and his young partner, Barry Laverty. But even with all that occupies him in the present, can O'Reilly ever truly let go of the ghosts from his past?

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