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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...

Barry Laverty, M.B., is looking forward to his first Christmas in the cozy village of Ballybucklebo, at least until he learns that his sweetheart, Patricia, might not be coming home for the holidays. That unhappy prospect dampens his spirits somewhat, but Barry has little time to dwell on his romantic disappointments. Christmas may be drawing nigh, but there is little peace to be found on earth, especially for a young doctor plying his trade in the emerald hills and glens of rural Ireland.

Along with his senior partner, Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, Barry has his hands full dealing...

Wiedersehen in Ballybucklebo! Hinter den grünen Hügeln liegt das Glück.

Endlich wird der junge Arzt Barry Laverty fester Partner in der Praxis von Dr. O'Reilly. Doch der exzentrische Alte hält nichts von der Schulmedizin, er hat seine ganz eigenen Methoden. Und auch die anderen Bewohner von Ballybucklebo machen Barry das Leben manchmal schwer. Aber als es darum geht, den 400 Jahre alten Pub im Dorf zu retten, raufen sich alle zusammen. Die gemütliche Kneipe soll nicht in eine glitzernde Touristenfalle verwandelt werden. Zu allem Überfluss plant Patricia Spence,...