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Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the Northern Ireland village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there. But Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice.

At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly.

The older physician has his own way of doing things. At first, Barry can't decide if the pugnacious O'Reilly is the biggest charlatan he has ever met or the best teacher he could ever hope for. Through O'Reilly, Barry soon gets to know all of the village's colourful and endearing...

Ein gemütliches Dorf auf dem Land. Ein Winter mit viel Schnee. Eine Gemeinschaft, die zusammenhält.

Barry Laverty ist Landarzt im beschaulichen Ballybucklebo in Nordirland. Hier ticken die Uhren etwas anders. Voller Vorfreude sieht Barry nun seinem ersten Weihnachtsfest in der bunten Dorfgemeinschaft entgegen. Schnee und Eis haben die Landschaft bereits in einen weißen Traum verwandelt, doch dann greift eine Grippewelle um sich. Auch Barrys exzentrischen Chef, Dr. O'Reilly, hat es erwischt. Der betagte Arzt kennt für sich und seine Patienten allerdings vor allem...

Readers of Patrick Taylor's books know Mrs. Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled town doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. A trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, it often seems as though Kinky has always been there.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Some forty-odd years before and many miles to the south, the girl who would someday be Kinky Kincaid was Maureen O'Hanlon, a farmer's daughter growing up in the emerald hills and glens of County Cork. A precocious girl on the cusp of womanhood, Maureen...

Patrick Taylor first charmed readers with "An Irish Country Doctor, " a warm and enchanting novel in the tradition of James Herriot and Jan Karon. Now Taylor returns to the colorful Northern Ireland community of Ballybucklebo, where there's always something brewing beneath the village's deceptively sleepy surface.

Young Doctor Barry Laverty has only just begun his assistantship under his eccentric mentor, Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, but he already feels right at home in Ballybucklebo. When the sudden death of a patient casts a cloud over Barry's reputation, his chances of establishing...