A review by kmcdadepdx
The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman

4.0

I am a birth story junkie, so a novel about midwifery, written by a real midwife, is pretty much perfect for me. It's also about Depression-era West Virginia, and about race relations, and about unions. Most of the time the midwife's voice felt authentic to the era, but occasionally not (although, I'm reminded that there were a wide range of people at the time, as there are now, and not everyone would have fit what we think of as typical).

I think I might have liked more romance in it, as well. There's a romance, but it isn't really explored much, and I felt like the book ended abruptly just when it was getting to the romance.