The much awaited second helping of Mary J. MacLeod’s tales of ‘Papavray’ in the 1970s and her experiences as the island’s district nurse, culminating in her move to a very different new life in California. Mary J.’s anecdotes of life on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides brim with charm, humour and common sense.She shares heartwarming and amusing tales of crofters and ceilidhs, pesky cows and stubborn drivers, treacherous bogs and a suspected haunting, but also the deeply sad story of a desperate mother and a baby’s untimely death. For the district nurse, human tragedy, joy and laughter areall in a days’ work.