The Midwives

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With a killer concept — what happens when someone devoted to bringing life into the world is accused of abusing that responsibility, trust and privilege — Anna Schofield’s The Midwives delivers a gripping work of crime fiction that’s layered with psychological insights.

The story opens at Darkford General Hospital’s award ceremony, with Erica winning an award for services to midwifery, and the narrator, Sue, sharing the fact that “These women are my life. I would even go as far as to say I love them. I’ve worked with Katie for almost ten years, and Erica for two. To operate the way we do to take care of mothers and their babies, we need complete trust in each other”. 

And that trust, and its fragmentation, is one of the themes at the heart of this novel, for we also learn early on that Katie is about to stand trial for over-medicating mums-to-be, and more: “She wanted a child. She drugged those women to take a baby”.

With its page-turning plot teeming with distrust and escalating paranoia, The Midwives is sure to provoke lots of thought as it explores female solidarity and psychopathy through a punch-packing thriller.

Reviewed by Joanne Owen
Joanne Owen’s lifelong love of reading and writing began when she was growing up in Pembrokeshire, and very much wished that witches (and Mrs Pepperpot) were real.
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