<div>Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod (known to all as Julia) and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house?a farmer’s stone cottage?on ?a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. <I>Call the Nurse</I> is her account of the first enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends.<br><BR>Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland. The remarkable debut of an author now in her eighties, <I>Call the Nurse</I> is a treasure of sweet nostalgia.<BR></div>