Notes

Nick Trout
340 pages
Summary: After fifteen years, veterinary pathologist, Dr. Cyrus Mills returns to rural Vermont to inherit the Bedside Manor for Sick Animals, the failing veterinary practice of his recently deceased and long-estranged father. Cyrus, is far more comfortable with cold clinical facts than living, breathing animals and intends to sell the practice and leave town as fast as he can. Then his first patient - a down-on-her-luck golden retriever named Frieda Fuzzypaws - wags her way through the door, and Cyrus is caught up in a new community and its endearing residents, both human and animal. Sensing he may have misjudged the past, he begins to realise it's not just his patients that need healing