The Human Body

by Lucy Kirkwood

1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, socialist and Labour Party councillor, is working tirelessly to implement Nye Bevan's National Health Service Act and its revolutionary promise of free healthcare for all.

At home she is a mother, and wife to a fellow GP, an ex-Navy man scarred by the war. But a chance meeting with George Blythe, a local boy who has made it to Hollywood, turns her quiet, certain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839043261
• ISBN13: 9781839043260
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Length: 128 Pages