The Good Doctor - Damon Galgut

When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting, Frank is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not - young, optimistic and full of new schemes. The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the staff in dilapidated hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust.

The town beyond the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The Brigadier, a self-styled dictator from the apartheid days, is rumoured to be still alive. And down at Mama's place a group of soldiers have moved in with their malign commandant, a man Frank is keen to avoid.

Laurence wants to help, but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.