Sunday 9 March 2014

A review of Doctor in Clover by Richard Gordon



‘Doctor in Clover’ is quite a hilarious book by Richard Gordon which will leave the readers clutching their sides with laughter.
Dr. Grimsdyke is not your run-of-the-mill physician. He sort of stumbled into the profession, for the lack of a better option. After precariously wallowing through the student years, he somehow attained the degree.
However, that’s where the problems begin to hoard up. Being a doctor bores the hell out of him. Urged on by his cousin Miles, he accepts the position as General Physician in a remote region in the countryside in England. However, soon bored with the monotonous lifestyle, he somehow messes it all up with his easy-go-lucky attitude.
Devising a ludicrous plan to get out of one mess, he stumbles into problem after problem with no end in sight.
A peep into his past gives us a humorous flashback of his love-life and hilarious heartbreak(s).
Jobless yet again, he tries a hand at writing but nothing good comes out of it until much later. Meanwhile, he tries to nurse an old Lord back to health who had nothing wrong with him in the first place.
Searching for other openings, anything to avoid the ‘doctor’ profession, he seems to do nothing right. In the end, everything gets pieced together, albeit in a topsy-turvy manner.
A somersault of giggles, laughter, grins and guffaws… the reader will remain hooked till the end.