Nurse Fortescue and Doctor Paddon

Dave Paddon
978-1-997667-02-5
forthcoming fall 2025
paperback, 263 pages
216 × 140 × 15 mm, 262 g

$22.95 CAD

Dave Paddon collects and retells the stories of his parents, Sheila Fortescue and Tony Paddon. This book is a tribute to the storytellers that shaped the younger Paddon and a glimpse into the lives of frontier health care workers “scarcely comprehensible in the modern era.”

Reviews

“Read this book if you want to learn about human beings at their best. About a love for Labrador and all its peoples. About
superhuman optimism, dedication and astonishing medical miracles in one of the harshest and most beautiful places on
Earth. Read this book if you want to be amazed.”

—Andy Jones, writer and actor

“This book is packed full of rich tales of bravery, tenacity, ingenuity—and perhaps the greatest survival skill of all—an
enduring sense of humour.”

—Holly Hogan, author of Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist

“With its treks by dog-sled through snowstorms, V1 rocket attacks, and whale autopsies, the book reveals a way of life
now past, and a generosity and strength of community forged by hardship and respect.”

—Marnie Parsons, publisher, Running the Goat Books and Broadsides