New Jersey, 2023. Riley
Carmichael is getting married and finally joining a huge, loving family,
but she can’t help but feel the emptiness of her own side of the
church. For most of Riley’s life, it’s been just her and her
grandmother, Betty, but as late-stage dementia overtakes her
grandmother’s mind, Riley knows she’s losing her, too. On one of Riley’s
visits to Betty’s nursing home, she encounters her grandmother in one
of her increasingly rare moments of lucidity, and Betty desperately
shares with Riley a tatty birth certificate for an unknown baby born in
Ireland in the 1950s. Full of questions about her heritage, Riley
embarks on a trip to Ireland to find that elusive sense of home,
identity, and belonging.
Tipperary, Ireland, 1954.
Margaret Lannigan’s life is made up of weekly dances and time spent
with the love of her life, Joseph. But when Margaret’s older sister dies
suddenly, it falls to Margaret to fulfill the family’s commitment to
the Catholic Church: the eldest daughter of the Lannigan family has
joined a local convent for generations. Forced to part with Joseph and
take the veil, Margaret is sent to Ballyvale Home for Fallen Girls to
care for expectant mothers who fell pregnant outside of marriage. With
no training or midwifery skills, she must fight to provide the
compassionate care she feels these women deserve amid the cruelty they
face.
When Margaret meets a young and terrified Delia O’Rourke,
the sister of her childhood best friend, she must find the strength she
needs to protect this young woman and her baby in the face of a system
built to ensure they disappear.
Told with courage and heart, The Forgotten Midwife is a haunting, hopeful novel about the strength of women, the meaning of family, and the life-saving power of friendship.
About The Author
The author did a beautiful job of weaving this gripping dual time read.
A book filled with emotions, and the author's notes bring us full circle! A tale of fiction, but? Yes, these things really happened, sadly!
Family, yes, this is a story of wanting, a new beginning a journey, and big revelations.
The things that happened here, made me want justice, but keep reading!
I loved the epilogue, and as I said the author's notes, they made the story complete.
What people did in the name of religion is horrible, and not what God intended, evil takes over, and when you read that this is based on facts, it really hits home.
I'm glad I read this book, and will be looking for more by this author!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Gallery Books, and was not required to give a positive review.
To
inherit her grandfather’s estate, Roxanne Clarke has to prove the
identity of her birth mother. Considering all the ancestry help online,
that shouldn’t be a problem. However, the only clues Roxanne has are an
old photograph and hints provided by a member of her grandfather’s
household that her mother was born in Yorkshire.
American Christian Fiction Writers Genesis Award winner Valerie Massey Goree resides in San Antonio, Texas.
When
crime fiction novelist Kelly Landon agrees to write a memoir for an
eccentric, elderly gentleman, her quiet life turns upside-down.
Christina Rost
is an award-winning author, mother to three amazing children, and is
married to her high school sweetheart. While she currently resides in
Oklahoma City, she’s lived all over the US, a few years in the UK, and
loves to travel. When she isn’t spending time with her family or writing
you’ll find her chatting over coffee and perusing antique stores for
tattered books.
Sixteen-year-old
Sam Keller has lived in foster homes and group homes most of his life
and has long ago given up on the dream of a stable, forever family.
Adults have always let him down, and so has God, and he has no use for
either.
Kimberly Banet
received her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University. She started
writing in 2020. Her debut novel, Just Another Home, was a 2023 ACFW
Genesis Finalist.
Gerard
Truman frantically arrived at Holliday Hotel in need of a place to stay
that was near the clinic in Willow Creek. His sister, Stacie, was ill
and the prognosis didn’t look good. Carol Holliday immediately welcomed
Gerard and placed him in the room she called Resurrection Rest. Dr. Eva
Livingston was an intelligent, driven doctor. Direct, serious, and
lacking compassion, she was not known for her bedside manner. Seeing no
hope for Stacie, she urges Gerard to say his good-byes and remove his
sister from life-support. As she battles Gerard, Eva is forced to take a
look at herself and reevaluate how she is faring as a doctor. His faith
shakes her and even as she is frustrated by his determination, she
finds herself drawn to him as well. But it will take a miracle for this
arrogant doctor to change.
Courtney Lyman
lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband, their three children, and
two cats. She is the author of the KW Consulting series, the Holliday
Hotel series, as well as several Christmas novellas. She stays busy with
her family’s activities, her ministries at church, and in whatever time
is left, knitting, singing, and playing games.
Vickie McDonough
is the CBA, EPCA and Amazon best-selling author of 54 books and
novellas. Vickie grew up wanting to marry a rancher, but instead, she
married a computer geek who is scared of horses. She now lives out her
dreams penning romance stories about ranchers, cowboys, lawmen, and
others living in the Old West. Vickie’s books have won numerous awards
including the Booksellers Best, OWFI Best Fiction Novel Award, the
Inspirational Readers’ Choice awards. When she’s not writing, Vickie
enjoys reading, making cards, gardening, and traveling.
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