My next order from the library will be "A Fierce Local", a book about Ireland written by a man who has Polycythemia Vera, as I do. I don't think the book is about PV, it's about the area where he lives with his Irish wife. Might possibly be depressing, though, as the poverty of rural Ireland is legendary, and I suppose lots of them are now back in that poverty with the economic stress which has visited Ireland. Ireland was one of the show places for modern industrialization, and now has collapsed with the fall of the Euro. Falling in love with the modern world proved a dicey affair for them.