The Apprenticeship of Dr Laverty Author:Patrick Taylor Set in a general medical practice in the eccentric Ulster village in 1964. Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly is a fifty-six-year-old, unmarried country doctor, He is joined by the wet-behind-the-ears, medical graduate, who is unsure of where his future lies. From their initial encounter, when O'Reilly hurls a hapless carpenter by trade, into a bed... more » of rose bushes, to the final chapter wherein Laverty solves his dilemma about whether to join O'Reilly in a permanent position.« less