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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...

Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's bestselling novel "An Irish Country Doctor, "he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in "Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour." These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O'Reilly as he tends to the colourful and eccentric residents of Ballybucklebo, a cozy Ulster village nestled in the bygone years of the early sixties.

Those seminal columns have been collected in "The Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country Stories." In this...

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...

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...