{"product_id":"9780771032745","title":"The Good Doctor","description":"When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting in a former homeland of  the new South Africa, Frank, a fellow doctor there, is instantly suspicious. Laurence  is everything Frank is not—young, optimistic, and full of new schemes. The two  become uneasy friends, while the rest of the meagre staff in the deserted hospital  view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The tired, ghostly town beyond  the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The Brigadier,  a self-fashioned dictator from apartheid days, is rumoured to be still alive. And  down at Mama’s Place, the town’s only watering hole, a group of soldiers have moved  in with their malign commandant, a man Frank has met before and is keen to avoid  for his own dark reasons. Laurence wants to help—but in a world where the past  is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.","brand":"Damon Galgut","offers":[{"title":"McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2004-09-07","offer_id":44151423303935,"sku":"9780771032745","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7e927d26-ab26-4c79-ad07-89d347e9efe7.jpg?v=1700679041","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780771032745","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}