The Secrets and techniques of Midwives: A Novel

“With empathy and eager perception, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel concerning the complicated, pretty, and even heartbreaking relationships between moms and daughters.—Emily Gifin
Three generations of girls
Secrets and techniques within the current and from the previous
A fascinating story of life, loss, and love…Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is decided to maintain the small print surrounding her personal being pregnant—together with the identification of the infant’s father— hidden from her household and associates for so long as attainable. Her mom, Grace, finds it not possible to let this secret relaxation. The extra Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the extra the lifelong variations between personal, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace pressure their relationship. For Floss, Neva’s grandmother and a retired midwife, Neva’s state of affairs thrusts her again sixty years in time to a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughter’s—one which, if revealed, can have life-changing penalties for all of them. As Neva’s being pregnant progresses and hypothesis makes it tougher and tougher to hide the reality, Floss wonders if hiding her personal reality is in the end extra dangerous than telling it. Will these ladies reveal their secrets and techniques and cope with the inevitable penalties? Or are some secrets and techniques greatest stored hidden?