Adventures in Two Worlds

<i>Adventures in Two Worlds</i> - an autobiographical novel by A J Cronin creator of television's Dr Finlay and author of <i>The Citadel</i> and many other bestsellers.<br><br>A master storyteller A J Cronin presents possibly his most fascinating tale. Taking material directly from his own life he tells of the early struggles of a poor medical student in Scotland the cruel crushing of all hopes of becoming a surgeon the years as a ship's doctor and later life in the country practice that was the real Tannochbrae.<br><br>There are many strange twists and turns - not the least of them the dramatic move from the world of medicine into that of literature when a novel 'written despairingly on twopenny exercise books thrown out and rescued from the rubbish heap' was accepted by a publisher. And with <i>Hatter's Castle</i> a new career was born.