387 pages ;22 cm.
VPL copy inscribed by author.
Practicing midwife Dora Rare works in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia during the early part of the twentieth century, but the midwifery tradition is threatened when medical doctor Gilbert Thomas arrives with promises of fast, painless childbirth.
1.Acadians--Fiction.2.Childbirth--Fiction.3.Midwifery--Fiction.4.Nineteen tens--Fiction.5.Obstetricians--Fiction.6.World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.Dynamic Details