The Young Physician -- Francis Brett Young

Condition : Good.

Heinemann, 1950 - Fiction - 470pp. Reprint, name of previous owner inside.
The Young Physician focuses on the public school and medical student days of the central character Edwin Ingleby in the years before the Great War. Born in Halesby [Hales Owen], the son of a chemist and with an ailing mother ambitious for her son, Edwin experiences the ups and downs of school life and subsequently the rigours of the five-year training at the medical school of North Bromwich [Birmingham].
Brett Young explores in a gentle tolerant way what forms Edwins character - his mothers Welsh background, his fathers Somerset relations - and provides insights into the range of people he encounters in Halesby and North Bromwich, from the rich to the poor, the self-centred to the humble and appreciative. Edwins education is set against the background of North Bromwichs development as a city and the recognition of the new Universitys medical school.
Francis Brett Young was born in 1884 at Hales Owen, Worcestershire, the eldest son of Dr Thomas Brett Young.
After the First World war Francis and Jessie, his wife went to live in Capri where a number of novels with African as well as English backgrounds were produced. Popular success came in 1927 when Francis was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Portrait of Clare.
The Brett Youngs returned to England in 1929, staying for a while in the Lake District before settling at Craycombe House in Worcestershire in 1932. During this period Francis was at the height of his fame and his annually produced novels were eagerly awaited.

Following a breakdown in his health Francis and Jessie moved to South Africa where he died in 1954. 

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