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4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1948 Originally published 1948 Country United Kingdom | 4/5 Pan Macmillan Language English ISBN 0-450-03313-9 Genres Novel, Romance novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 313 pp. (US hardback edition) Publishers Little, Brown and Company (US), Victor Gollancz Ltd (UK), Ryerson Press (Canada) Similar A J Cronin books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shannon's Way is a 1948 novel by Scots author, A. J. Cronin. It continues the story of Robert Shannon from Cronin's previous novel, The Green Years (1944).
Plot summary
Robert trains to be a doctor at the fictional Levenford Infirmary (Levenford is loosely based on Dumbarton), and falls in love with Jean Law, a young medical student belonging to the Plymouth Brethren who rejects him when she discovers that he has deceived her about his history and religion (he is a Roman Catholic). He develops an interest in a disease contracted from infected cows' milk, and devotes his spare time to researching it: it turns out to be brucellosis. Dr. Shannon contracts a nervous breakdown when he completes the project only to find that someone else has anticipated his results, and is nursed by and marries Jean.