Why Baileigh loves this book
I loved the uniqueness of the story-line and writing. It's very different from the books I normally read. I found it a bit slow at times and the writing wandered here and there, but overall it was a fantastic book and very thought provoking.
3 authors picked The Book of the Unnamed Midwife as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner
When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.
In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population-killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant-the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power-and the strong who possess it.
A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even…
