{"product_id":"an-irish-country-village-9781250868992","title":"An Irish Country Village","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully evocative of a gentler, simpler time, Patrick Taylor's \u003ci\u003eAn Irish Country Village\u003c\/i\u003e magically captures the charm, wit, and ribald humor of a vanished Irish countryside and its people.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome Back to the Village of Ballybucklebo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCome and say hello again to Dr. O'Reilly's odd-as-two-left feet patients, his housekeeper, Mrs. \"Kinky\" Kinkaid, and O'Reilly's pets, Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab and Lady MacBeth, the demonically possessed white cat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd of course, to young Dr. Barry Laverty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter Barry's first month as an assistant to crusty Dr. O'Reilly, he has been offered a permanent spot. But Laverty's excitement is dashed when one of his patients unexpectedly dies. The damage to his reputation is enormous, and he and O'Reilly must work to resolve the question of Barry's responsibility for the death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey also have to figure out how to save the four-hundred-year-old village pub. Plans are afoot to not renew the hundred-year lease and instead transform the old pub into a sparkling new tourist trap.\u003cbr\u003eTo make matters even worse, Patricia Spence, the love of Barry's life, announces she is trying to win a scholarship to distant Cambridge University, all the way in England. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Taylor, M.D.\u003c\/b\u003e, is the author of the Irish Country books, including \u003ci\u003eAn Irish Country Doctor, An Irish Country Village, An Irish Country Christmas, An Irish Country Girl, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAn Irish Country Courtship\u003c\/i\u003e. Taylor was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. After qualifying as a specialist in 1969, he worked in Canada for thirty-one years. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Forge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641526882578,"sku":"9781250868992","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_635f04b2-ec83-4e95-8593-bd94de811d7f.jpg?v=1737261449","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-irish-country-village-9781250868992","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}