A Shetland Midwife in Africa: Memoirs from the Shetland Isles - Couverture souple

McAlpine, Mona

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0995745331 ISBN 13 : 9780995745339

Editeur : Kessock Books, 2026

Synopsis

Mona McAlpine's best-selling memoir of her time as the only nurse on Fair Isle, Britain's most remote inhabited island, was just the start of an incredible career. She left her native Shetland Isles in 1969 to begin a thirty year adventure, nursing in South Africa at its most turbulent.

As a midwife in the township of Soweto, she encountered tragedy and comedy, as well as the triumph of the human spirit. Working in hospitals in Johannesburg, she was an eyewitness to one of South Africa's biggest and most heart-rending crimes, before meeting the great and the good of the country, including the late President Nelson Mandela.

After three decades, she decided to return to her home on the Old Rock: Shetland.

In A Shetland Midwife in Africa, Mona tells her story with great verve and warmth. It will inspire, move and evoke strong emotions, from laughter to tears, as it captures life in South Africa as everything in that country changed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mona McAlpine grew up in the 1940s in the district of Whiteness in Shetland. In the 1960s she found herself working as the only nurse on Britain’s most remote inhabited island, Fair Isle. Mona spent more than 30 years as a nurse and midwife in South Africa, before returning to her native isles. Once home, Mona and her husband Iain set up their charity From Shetland With Love, supporting orphanages in southern Africa. Her charity work has raised more than £200,000.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessock Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0995745331
• ISBN 13: 9780995745339
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 166
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