Used paperback in good condition. Cover and pages showing minimal wear. Pages showing normal age discolouration. Rubber stamp on flyleaf. Ink signature on title page. 158 pages. Published by Digit Books, 1964. ISBN n/a.

"You will get in with my patients if you are rude to them systematically, if your attitude is one of brusqueness tempered with scepticism. Keep clear of the churches, this place is a veritable hot-bed of Christianity, avoid open partisanship, vote solidly Tory, and you will be happy."

So wrote Jabez Manton on the occasion of surrendering his practice to youth, youth in the person of his young and able nephew Anthony. Young, disarmingly frank, perhaps a little arrogant, the new doctor was to provide Bulboro' with its biggest talking point in years.