A. J. Cronin

When newly qualified doctor Andrew Manson takes up his first post in a Welsh mining community, he brings with him a bagful of idealism and enthusiasm. But before long Andrew’s outspokenness makes him enemies - as well as winning him friends, and the love of an idealistic schoolteacher.

Young and idealistic, newly trained GP Andrew Manson is full of enthusiasm when he first arrives in the small mining village of Drineffy, where he is to work as assistant to the elderly Dr Page. But he soon encounters corruption, apathy and appalling medical practices, and becomes determined to storm the citadel of the medical establishment and make a difference. In these six series, he befriends the cynical Dr Denny and helps him to deal with a typhoid epidemic; meets the love of his life, Christine; performs a remarkable doctoring feat in a crisis; takes a new job in a larger town; becomes caught up in the 1926 miners' strike - and makes a desperate attempt to save the life of someone close to him…