This novel will surprise those devotees of The Journal who are familiar with Pamela Mason's meticulously researched articles on nutrition and on pharmacy in other countries - and,if they enjoy good fiction,delight them.Amis Rozenvald,a widower approaching 60,has returned with his elderly mother to Riga,after 30 years as a single-handed NHS general practitioner in London.He had fled Latvia as a small child with his mother during the 1939-45 war following the seizure,in 1941,of his father by the Russians.The charge was that Arnis's father,a Latvian patriot,was anti-Russian and he was deported to a Siberian labour camp.The ship in which Arms and his mother fled landed them in Scotland and Arnis's mother found menial work there and made sacrifices to get her son through medical school.Disillusionment with the NHS and the loss of his wife influence Amis to return to Latvia with his mother,and he sets up as one of the first general practitioners in Riga following the collapse of Russian communism.
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