1998, ISBN: 009926806X

Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1998: On a violent, stormy winter night, a home birth goes disastrously wrong. The phone lines are down, the roads slick with ice. The midwife, unable … Mehr…

Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1998: On a violent, stormy winter night, a home birth goes disastrously wrong. The phone lines are down, the roads slick with ice. The midwife, unable to get her patient to a hospital, works frantically to save both mother and child while her inexperienced assistant and the woman's terrified husband look on. The mother dies but the baby is saved thanks to an emergency C-section. And then the nightmare begins: the assistant suggests that maybe the woman wasn't really dead when the midwife operated: Did she perform at least eight or nine cycles as my mother said, or four or five as Asa recalled? That is the sort of detail that was disputable. But at some point within minutes of what my mother believed had been a stroke, after my mother concluded the cardiopulmonary resuscitation had failed to generate a pulse or a breath, she screamed for Asa and Anne to find her the sharpest knife in the house. In Midwives, Chris Bohjalian chronicles the events leading up to the trial of Sibyl Danforth, a respected midwife in the small Vermont town of Reddington, on charges of manslaughter. It quickly becomes evident, however, that Sibyl is not the only one on trial--the prosecuting attorney and the state's medical community are all anxious to use this tragedy as ammunition against midwifery in general; this particular midwife, after all, an ex-hippie who still evokes the best of the flower-power generation, is s contemporary,fiction,genre fiction,legal,literary,literature and fiction,medical,mystery thriller and suspense,thrillers Thrillers, Vintage UK<

ISBN: 009926806X

Set in a small rural community in Vermont, this is the story of Sibyl Danforth, a respected midwife who is accused of murder after she performs a caesarian section on a mother in her care… Mehr…

Set in a small rural community in Vermont, this is the story of Sibyl Danforth, a respected midwife who is accused of murder after she performs a caesarian section on a mother in her care, whom she believes to have died of a stroke during a long and difficult labour. Now she is on trial. contemporary,fiction,genre fiction,legal,literary,literature and fiction,medical,mystery thriller and suspense,thrillers Thrillers, Vintage UK<

1998, ISBN: 009926806X

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