A friend recommended this book and I'm so glad that I read it. It is one of those books that will live with me for a long time. It is also one of those books that makes you feel like you have read it before. Maybe it is because the theme of birth is such a universal one. It reminded me of my birt...
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. Several reviewers thought the main character was either naïve or a little too hard to believe. I didn't feel that way at all. When the author d...
I mean no disrespect toward Patricia Harman but for me her memoir is off putting. Yes it is frank, interesting in parts and she is certainly honest. I am in the same age group and lived through the flower child culture perhaps that colors my perspective. I did not need to know 50 times over that ...
I enjoyed this book a lot. I guess I expected it to be different in a way and talk more about midwifery in the delivery of babies rather than simply her practice, but it was interesting all the same. I read a bit of the book then had a few days in between my next reading and found I had to look b...