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Author Notes: Chapter 5

November 10, 2025

Buy The BookWe have met Kane and Isobel at home and found them unhappy with each other. Trainee doctors have presented difficulties for themselves and their families for gener...

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Chapter 5. Kane and Isobel

November 7, 2025

Buy The BookKane drove north from the hospital and turned left across the narrow-gauge railway towards Freshwater. Further on, the road opened to the brilliant deep green of t...

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Author's Notes Chapter 4

November 1, 2025

Queensland AUNotes for Chapter 4In this chapter, we learn more about Judith and meet Ted for the first time.Judith seizes an opportunity to assert her newfound independence an...

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Chapter 4: Ted Feels Diminished

October 31, 2025

Far North Queensland.Buy The BookLater that week, Judith asked Ted to come to her office. She ushered him into the room that used to be his.When the hospital was last refurbis...

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Author's Notes On Chapter 3

October 25, 2025

In Chapter 1 James, the anaesthetist, insists that Kim finishes Robert’s operation quickly. Bill, the surgical registrar, suggests a quick ex-fix, to which James replies, th...

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Chapter 3: Monday Morning Meeting

October 24, 2025

Buy The BookEvery Monday morning, the orthopedic unit in an internal, windowless room specially designed for meetings, tutorials and planning the week’s work. Banks of X-ray...

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