'If there were any convents left in England I would gladly enter one,' Mistress Isabel Holstead tells Sir Ralph Overton. Anything would be preferable to marrying him! But in the troubled religious climate of 1581 it seems that she must reco...
How could this new vet ever take the place of her kindly old employer! Julie Weston wondered. Simon Chelford cared about animals just as much as she did, and they worked together well as a team. But though he was gentle and compassionate towards his ...
After an unhappy love affair �" and a lot of scandal that she hadn’t deserved �" Joanna had fled from her Suffolk home to a veterinary practice in Sussex, to take charge of the small animals department. With a constant, and varied flow ...
As a newly qualified vet, Emma Bowden wanted to work with a good practice, and be independent. But her father’s need for vital surgery meant she was needed to look after his veterinary surgery, along with a locum. If that were not enough, her boyfr...
Hilary Bennett knew she was a good vet, with both large and small animals, so she wasn’t best pleased when Robert Milbourne made it clear he felt large animals were not suitable work for a woman vet. Having been abandoned by her childhood sweethear...
Thanks to the good offices of her godmother, Sophie Ferguson was able to set up her veterinary partnership with friend Joanna much sooner than she might otherwise have managed. So it was a horrible shock to discover just before they opened that anoth...
With the break-up of her engagement to Derek, vet Lisa Benson had moved south to make a new life for herself in James Carter’s practice. But a heart attack brought forward James’s retirement, and it was an awful quirk of fate that his replacemen...
When Lindsay Oliver took up her next three-month locum in the Thames Valley area, the last thing she expected, as a virtually new qualified vet, was to be offered a partnership pending the retirement of the senior partner. Not at all sure she was rea...
Alice Norton loved her work and was determined to keep her father's veterinary practice going, but she needed help. She had almost given up the search when James Preston agreed to assist temporarily. Professionally their vet skills dovetailed beaut...
Vet Rose Deakin should have been looking forward to her new job in David Langley’s practice, but the presence of her ex-fiance Pete Harlow was a problem. Apparently David didn’t like employing married couples, and she couldn’t reveal that Pete ...