With her parents pushing her to marry and none of her prospects appealing, Grace Baldwin was eager to accept a position as a country midwife out in a rural settlement in Iowa. Indianapolis where she grew up surrounded by family and friends can't be so different from a life alone out on the frontier, can it? But from the moment she arrives it's more challenging - and rewarding - than she could have ever imagined.
Bernard Pevear was a college professor before he gave up his old life to live as a farmer and raise his sister's orphaned children. Helping out his pretty new neighbor Grace comes naturally, but so does the talk about the two of them. Amidst country births, scarce food, and a ghost story or two, decisions for the rest of his life and the lives of the children must be made. Both of them lost souls trying to find their way in the world, might they find each other?
Country Midwife is the third book in the Midwife Stories, telling a multi-generational saga. Grace's granddaughter Carol's story can be read in Broken Water, against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the building of the Hoover Dam. Grace's grandson Harry and his wife Brenda's story is in The Crazies, in post-WWII Montana.
Bernard Pevear was a college professor before he gave up his old life to live as a farmer and raise his sister's orphaned children. Helping out his pretty new neighbor Grace comes naturally, but so does the talk about the two of them. Amidst country births, scarce food, and a ghost story or two, decisions for the rest of his life and the lives of the children must be made. Both of them lost souls trying to find their way in the world, might they find each other?
Country Midwife is the third book in the Midwife Stories, telling a multi-generational saga. Grace's granddaughter Carol's story can be read in Broken Water, against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the building of the Hoover Dam. Grace's grandson Harry and his wife Brenda's story is in The Crazies, in post-WWII Montana.
