The Midwife of Hope River: A Novel of an American Midwife
Aug 2012 · Hope River Book 1 · Sold by Harper Collins
4.4star
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A remarkable new voice in American fiction enchants readers with a moving and uplifting novel that celebrates the miracle of life. In The Midwife of Hope River, first-time novelist Patricia Harmon transports us to poverty stricken Appalachia during the Great Depression years of the 1930s and introduces us to a truly unforgettable heroine. Patience Murphy, a midwife struggling against disease, poverty, and prejudice—and her own haunting past—is a strong and endearing character that fans of the books of Ami McKay and Diane Chamberlain will take into their hearts, as she courageously attempts to bring new light, and life, into an otherwise cruel world.
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4.4
67 reviews
Amy Reesor
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January 11, 2015
i had trouble putting it down. shows all kinds of situations that can happen both good and bad and the setting fuels the plot line too with all the hardships of depression and racial persecution all around but this is a book about hope, pun intended, as it should be.
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Rhonda Stachurski
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August 3, 2013
This book says that it has 400 pages but when I bought it says that therr is 140 pages. Youought to get what it said. I never would payed that price for so few pages. Feel like I was cheated.
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Bonnie Hardin
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July 17, 2013
This one's a heart opener set in the years of the Depression. Very pertinent to where we are culturally today re: unions, racism, womens issues. Nice change from my usual thrillers.
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About the author
Patricia Harman, CNM, got her start as a lay midwife on rural communes and went on to become a nurse-midwife on the faculties of Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University, and West Virginia University. She is the author of two acclaimed memoirs and three novels: the bestselling The Midwife of Hope River, The Reluctant Midwife and The Runaway Midwife. She has three sons and lives near Morgantown, West Virginia.
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