Books by Patricia Harman
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review 1: Wonderful book about a midwife in West Virginia in 1930s. Tough times make people tough, there is a lot of troubles in the mining industry and in the country in general but babies keep on coming, regardless of nationality or race.Patience Murphy is running away from her former li...
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review 1: I'm being generous with the 3 stars, since disappointment is my major complaint. I was hoping for something more along the lines of Patricia's other book, The Midwife of Hope River. While I understand that many nurse midwives practice gynacology and don't attend births, I feel li...
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review 1: I'd give this a 3.75. Years ago, my mother lent me a book on tape (really, cassettes!) called Midwives and from that moment, I was fascinated by midwifery. I really enjoyed this story of a woman who works as a midwife in impoverished West Virginia during a time of tense race rela...