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![]() Patience is white and her new friend is black. Patience takes in another woman’s daughter to teach her midwifing and to keep her company, per the mother’s request. Hiding out in the mountains is a good way to be anonymous but not always the most profitable. Chickens, wood, coal or a quilt will be her best payments. No jobs equals no money to pay the midwife. The stock market crashed, not that Patience had any money invested but this means that businesses are failing right and left. Can her secrets stay safe in this coal mining community? Midwifery is what she can do while she hides out from the law for her past misdeeds. ![]() Times are hard after Prohibition and a thirty-six-year-old widow can barely make it alone. Death has become fairly constant in her life, having lost family, friends, the two men she loved as well as her only child, so helping other women is what Patience needs for her own healing. ![]() Taught the trade by one of the women, Patience ends up as the only midwife in rural West Virginia when her friend dies. Patience Murphy becomes a midwife by default when her husband dies and she moves in with two women who give her shelter. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 28, 2012) ![]() The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman A wonderful depiction of a midwife’s life in 1930s Appalachia. ![]()
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