Midwives (Oprah's Book Club)
Registered by princess1984 of Arnprior, Ontario Canada on 2/3/2007
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Just bought this today.
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"Superbly crafted and astonishingly powerful. . . . It will thrill readers who cherish their worn copies of "To Kill A Mockingbird." --People
With a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity that recall To Kill a Mockingbird and Presumed Innocent, this compulsively readable novel explores what happens when a woman who has devoted herself to ushering life into the world finds herself charged with responsibility in a patient''s tragic death.
The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby''s life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother, who appears to have died in labor. But what if--as Sibyl''s assistant later charges--the patient wasn''t already dead, and it was Sibyl who inadvertently killed her?
As recounted by Sibyl''s precocious fourteen-year-old daughter, Connie, the ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt except for the fact that all its participants are acting from the highest motives--and the defendant increasingly appears to be guilty. As Sibyl Danforth faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.
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Still TBR, but thinking of offering it up for a bookray when I finish reading it.
With a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity that recall To Kill a Mockingbird and Presumed Innocent, this compulsively readable novel explores what happens when a woman who has devoted herself to ushering life into the world finds herself charged with responsibility in a patient''s tragic death.
The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby''s life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother, who appears to have died in labor. But what if--as Sibyl''s assistant later charges--the patient wasn''t already dead, and it was Sibyl who inadvertently killed her?
As recounted by Sibyl''s precocious fourteen-year-old daughter, Connie, the ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt except for the fact that all its participants are acting from the highest motives--and the defendant increasingly appears to be guilty. As Sibyl Danforth faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.
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Still TBR, but thinking of offering it up for a bookray when I finish reading it.
Turning this one into a bookring for when I finish reading it.
The participants (in order) are:
princess1984 (ontario, Canada)
Sherlock Fan (Wellington, New Zeland) (I)
Hshah (India) (I)
Bookworm-lady (Spain) (EUR)
penelopewanders (Switzerland) (EUR)
Cross-patch (UK) (UK)
The participants (in order) are:
princess1984 (ontario, Canada)
Sherlock Fan (Wellington, New Zeland) (I)
Hshah (India) (I)
Bookworm-lady (Spain) (EUR)
penelopewanders (Switzerland) (EUR)
Cross-patch (UK) (UK)
I found this to be a really good book. Entertaining, though too the point.
I bought it in a second hand bookstore the other day, and got really into it.
I also found it interesting as I am trying to get pregnant (but have had two misscarriages now), and am seriously considering using a midwife instead of an ob-gyn. I don't think I want a home birth, but the midwives where I live are all registered, and trained in university. They also all have a hospital that they can practise out of, should the patient request it, or it be needed. It is a little different where I live then in the book, and the book is also a work of fictin as well. It was still a good read though, and a look at what can happen should it all go wrong.
Sending out as a bookray now. Enjoy everyone.
I bought it in a second hand bookstore the other day, and got really into it.
I also found it interesting as I am trying to get pregnant (but have had two misscarriages now), and am seriously considering using a midwife instead of an ob-gyn. I don't think I want a home birth, but the midwives where I live are all registered, and trained in university. They also all have a hospital that they can practise out of, should the patient request it, or it be needed. It is a little different where I live then in the book, and the book is also a work of fictin as well. It was still a good read though, and a look at what can happen should it all go wrong.
Sending out as a bookray now. Enjoy everyone.
Journal Entry 5 by princess1984 at --Controlled Release in Pembroke, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (2/13/2007 UTC) at --Controlled Release in Pembroke, Ontario Canada
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Mailed to sherlockfan as they are the first person on the list for the bookray.
Mailed to sherlockfan as they are the first person on the list for the bookray.