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The Midwife's Daughter by Ferguson, Patricia is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Midwife's Daughter about?
1 volume ; 20 cm The new novel from Orange Prize listed author Patricia Ferguson, is a deeply moving tale about two sisters and the young black orphan who changes their lives - for anyone who loves Call the Midwife or Andrea Levy. "Violet Dimond", the "Holy Terror", has delivered many of the town children - and often their children - in her capacity as handywoman. But Violet's calling is dying out as, with medicine's advances, the good old ways are no longer good enough. Grace, Violet's adopted daughter, is a symbol of change herself. In the place where she has grown up and everyone knows her, she is accepted, though most of the locals never before saw a girl with skin that colour. For Violet and Grace the coming war will bring more upheaval into their lives: can they endure it, or will they, like so many, be swept aside by history's tide? A moving tale of prejudice, struggle, love, tragedy, bravery and the changing lives of women in the twentieth century
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ferguson, Patricia
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241962756
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.42 / 5 (51 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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