The wooden doctor - Margiad Evans

This vibrant and intense novel, first published in 1933, sees Arabella, a passionate adolescent girl falling in love with her local doctor. She develops a mysterious illness requiring his attention but he is unable to cure it. Finally she declares her love for him, but is rejected and sinks into depression. Moving to a remote farm in Wales she has a brief affair with a young man and agrees to marry him. But a chance meeting with the doctor makes her realise the her young fianc will never match up to the man she has been obsessed with all her life.