The Human Body

“The window for change – real change I mean – will close. It’s already closing. Very soon it will be shut, and we shan’t be able to get it open again.” 1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, Socialist and Labour party councillor, is working tirelessly to implement Nye Bevan’s National Health Service Act and its revolutionary promise of free health care for all. At home she is a mother, and wife to a fellow GP, an ex-Navy man scarred by the war. But a chance meeting with George Blythe, a local boy who has made it to Hollywood, turns her quiet, certain world upside down.The Human Body is a story of political and private passions from multi-award-winning writer Lucy Kirkwood