The Midwife of Hope River (Thorndike Press Large Print Peer Picks)
A Library Journal Fabulous First for Fall -- Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, she helps those most in need -- and least likely to pay. ...
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A Library Journal Fabulous First for Fall -- Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, she helps those most in need -- and least likely to pay. But a successful midwifery practice must be built on a foundation of openness and trust, and the secrets Patience is keeping are far too intimate and fragile for her to let anyone in.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410455529 (1410455521)
Publish date: March 18th 2013
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 619
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Adult,
Medical,
American History,
Southern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
The Midwife of Hope RiverPatricia Harman Paperback, 382 pages Published August 28th 2012 by William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN13: 9780062198891 The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman follows Patience as an inexperienced midwife to being accepted as a part of the community she was living in. Seve...
At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to read this book, because child birth is something that scares me. It just don't like them. Well, that was until I read this book!The births in this book are vacuely enough described to not scare anyone away, and yet they are there. All characters in this book are...
With her background as a midwife, Patricia Harman uses The Midwife of Hope River to highlight this worthy practice back when it was a necessity rather than a luxury. This is more than a story about women giving birth however. This is a story about survival at its most elemental, when jobs and money ...
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