The Dop Doctor

A sprawling wartime novel set against a South African siege, following a disgraced doctor and the woman whose fate crosses his. A dramatic period romance of ruin and redemption.

At a glance Out of the dust and danger of a besieged South African town comes this sweeping novel of… What it's about The Dop Doctor centres on a doctor whose life has been undone by drink… Into this hard, uncertain world the story weaves other lives, including a young woman… As the siege presses on the townspeople and soldiers, the novel follows how character is…

The Dop Doctor centres on a doctor whose life has been undone by drink, and who finds himself in a frontier town as war closes around it.