A Very Peruvian Practice – Travels with La Señora –

“‘Our clinic is mainly for the expecting woman,’ La Señora explains to John Lane when he arrives to take up his post as advisor to the new Ladies’ Health Care Clinic in Lima, of which she is proprietor.

However the new advisor finds he has bitten off a great deal more than he was expecting. His six-week stay becomes eighten months as he struggles to deal with the clinic’s desperate finances and to manage the irrepressible and extravagant Señora.

John Lane’s account of life with the irrepressible Señora and the unconventional staff of the Clinic opens a unique window on Peruvian society and politics.”