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The Midwife's Daughter (2012)

by Patricia Ferguson(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Penguin Books

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The Midwife's Daughter

review 1: At the beginning got the 20th century Violet Dimond lives in s small Cornish community and makes her living as the woman that brings in the babies and lays out the dead. This is the story of Violet and her adopted daughter, Grace, a half cast child that she found living in an orphanage run by her twin sister, Bea. This is a fascinating about twins and their relationships with each other, and also how we are shaped by our identity or lack of it. We all need to belong to someone and somewhere.
review 2: The Midwife's daughter tells the story of Gracie, a foundling adopted by a midwife in turn of the nineteenth century Cornwall. The trouble is - Gracie is black. Patricia Ferguson has a rich, vivid writing style, and the characters leap off the page. She ... moretackles a number of issues in the book: racism and difference, the jealousy and love been Gracie's adopted mother, Violet and her sister, Bea and the tragedy of the first world war and what this meant to ordinary young men. What stopped me awarding 5 stars was the ending, which I cannot say more about without giving too much away. But I will be reading more by Patricia Ferguson. less

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