The reluctant midwife [text (large print)] / Patricia Harman.

Title:

ISBN:

9781410479648

Personal Author:

Harman, Patricia, 1943-

Edition:

Large Print edition.

Publication Information:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

Physical Description:

571 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Sequel to: The midwife of Hope River (2012).

Includes discussion questions.

Summary:

The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.

Corporate Subject:

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- Fiction

Geographic Term:

Appalachian Region -- Fiction

West Virginia -- Fiction

Subject Term:

Nurses -- Fiction

Women radicals -- Fiction.

Midwives -- Fiction

Catatonia -- Fiction

Wildfires -- Fiction.

Depressions 1929 -- Fiction