Sea Sick

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Is there a doctor who wouldn't want to work on a cruise ship sailing to Rio?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Ruth sets off on the voyage of a lifetime with her husband Tom yearning for a blissful break away from fifteen years as a hectic GP in the East End of London.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Within days an epidemic of Norovirus takes over the ship. Strict sanitary measures are implemented.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Passengers are quarantined. The mood on board changes.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>As the sole doctor Ruth works alongside two nurses one of whom is an alcoholic. Tensions in the Medical Centre mount.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Medical cases include life-threatening emergencies. A GP surgery it is not.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>At the doctor's table apparently colourless passengers reveal surprises as the trip unfolds.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>By day Ruth struggles with the masculine hierarchy while evenings bring romantic escapism for Tom and Ruth.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Ruth's unease grows as she realises that the ship retraces the Atlantic slave trade ports.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Her family story as Ten Pound Poms emigrating to Australia in 1949 and their subsequent four Atlantic crossings ignites her lifelong attachment to the sea.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>But will this be Ruth's last voyage?</span></p>