Doctor Meredith - Celia Laurence

When Doctor Emma Cardew joined the group practice of Doctor Gavin Meredith, she was immediately faced with the problem of a patient, Lynn Conway, who demanded her silence and whose secret she could not betray, even to her own partners.

Only Beryl Knight, nurse-cum-receptionist, and in love with Gavin, suspected the truth and was determined to wreck Lynn’s happiness and discredit Emma.

Emma fought to spare Gavin and protect Lynn, even at the expense of her own future, when emotion challenged her obligations as a doctor and brought drama, suspicion and near tragedy into the situation, as Beryl finally took her revenge.

This is a story that emphasizes the burden placed upon every doctor, who is compelled never to divulge the confidence of a patient, no matter how grave the consequences of honouring that promise might be. In Emma’s case it meant the renunciation of everything she longed for, and desired, in life, as she and Gavin were drawn into a situation which demanded the greatest sacrifice any two people could be called upon to make.

Doctor Meredith is a novel filled with compassion, its ending unforeseen and its interest and suspense maintained until the last page.