500 Miles from You
A Novel
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4.3 • 19 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
What happens when two medical professionals--ex Army medic
from a village in the Scottish Highlands and an inner city nurse from
inner-city London—switch jobs for three months and become unlikely pen pals?
Lissa, is a nurse in a gritty,
hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it
all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the
victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissa to spend
a few months doing a much less demanding job in the little town of Kirrinfeif
in the Scottish Highlands, hoping that the change of scenery will help her heal. Lissa will be swapping places with Cormack, an Army veteran who’s Kirrinfeif’s
easygoing nurse/paramedic/all-purpose medical man. Lissa’s never experienced
small-town life, and Cormack’s never spent more than a day in a big city, but
it seems like a swap that would do them both some good.
In London, the gentle
Cormack is a fish out of the water; in Kirrinfief, the dynamic Lissa finds it
hard to adjust to the quiet. But these two strangers are now in constant
contact, taking over each other’s patients, endlessly emailing about anything
and everything. Lissa and Cormack discover a new depth of feeling…for their
profession and for each other.
But what will happen
when Lissa and Cormack finally meet…?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Strangers trade lives in this endearing romance from Colgan (The Bookshop on the Shore), which will remind rom-com aficionados of the film The Holiday. London nurse Lissa Westcott witnesses a teenage boy getting run over by a car and is part of the failed effort to save his life. After the tragedy, she suffers from PTSD, leading her superiors to arrange for her to swap jobs with a nurse in the quiet town of Kirrinfief, Scotland, as a break from stressful London life. Meanwhile, nurse Cormac MacPherson travels from Kirrinfief to cover Lissa's patients in London. As both adjust to the charms and quirks of life in a small town and big city, they exchange notes on patients via email. Soon their correspondence becomes more personal than professional as they forge a powerful bond. Their long-distance relationship is sweet but slow as the medical drama and contrasting settings take center stage, but their eventual face-to-face meeting is worth the wait. This cute, cozy story will draw readers in.
