Agent: Josh Getzler, Hannigan Salky Getzler. Samuel Thomas The Midwife's Tale: A Mystery Hardcover Januby Sam Thomas (Author) 212 ratings Book 1 of 4: The Midwife's Tale Kindle 2.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 23.95 13 Used from 1.59 5 New from 15.36 6 Collectible from 10. Authentic details of life in 17th-century York complement the whodunit’s intelligently concealed clues. To gain time to investigate, Bridget avers that Esther is pregnant in order to defer the date of execution until she comes to term. Bridget later faces a greater crisis when her dear friend, Esther Cooper, is accused of fatally poisoning her husband, a crime defined as treason. Bridget faces a quandary because she can’t legally attend a labor unless she can identify the father, to spare the city having to support the child. While antimonarchist rebels lay siege to York, midwife Bridget Hodgson ventures to a city parish not her own to help deliver a bastard child about to be born to a maidservant “perhaps twenty-three years old and no great beauty,” who refuses to divulge the name of the father. Everything rings true in historian Thomas’s superb first mystery, set in 1644 during the English civil war.
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But Tarjei Vesaas was doing the same fifty years before them and in his time he wrote for more than fifty years his book was mainly based around his rural life his farmhouse is a place of pilgrimage for fans of his writing. we marvel at knausgaard and fosse for their insight and vision into the human character these days. In my second book of the year we are back in Europe and in the north with one of Norway’s greatest writers. |