Review: Doctors beyond borders
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
Focusing on aid work with charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, this book shows Dr. Ariadne Tate travelling to Sudan from Australia.  Her fellow doctors, midwives and nurses include an American, Ford Gosden, who is attractive but neither of them wants to start a relationship with a colleague.The bleakness of life in Sudan is unremitting.  We do have to wonder how people grow food there in the open desert and what they can do to better themselves when armed militia regularly drive through and loot the village.  The aid workers do their best in primitive conditions with improvised medical facilities. When a relationship does develop, it seems doomed as Ariadne, a foreign woman, is the target of a kidnapping by the local warlord.This is an unusual, well-described romance story which pays tribute to brave people and shows us a different way of life.