The Last Midwife, Sandra Dallas
The Last Midwife, Sandra Dallas
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The Last Midwife

Author: Sandra Dallas

Narrator: Pilar Witherspoon

Unabridged: 10 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/29/2015


Synopsis

With Sandra Dallas's incomparable gift for creating a sense of time and place and characters that capture your heart, The Last Midwife tells the story of family, community, and the secrets that can destroy and unite them.

It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime.

The women of Swandyke trust and depend on Gracy, and most couldn't imagine getting through pregnancy and labor without her by their sides.

But everything changes when a baby is found dead … and the evidence points to Gracy as the murderer.

She didn't commit the crime, but clearing her name isn't so easy when her innocence is not quite as simple, either. She knows things, and that's dangerous. Invited into her neighbors' homes during their most intimate and vulnerable times, she can't help what she sees and hears. A woman
sometimes says things in the birthing bed, when life and death seem suspended within the same moment.

Gracy has always tucked those revelations away, even the confessions that have cast shadows on her heart.

With her friends taking sides and a trial looming, Gracy must decide whether it's worth risking everything to prove her innocence. And she knows that her years of discretion may simply demand too high a price now … especially since she's been keeping more than a few dark secrets of her own.

About Sandra Dallas

Sandra Dallas, dubbed “a quintessential American voice” in Vogue Magazine, is the author of over a dozen novels, including Prayers for Sale and Tallgrass, many translated into a dozen languages and optioned for films. Six-time winner of the Willa Award and four-time winner of the Spur Award, Dallas was a Business Week reporter for 25 years covering the Rocky Mountain region, and began writing fiction in 1990. She has two daughters and lives with her husband in Denver and Georgetown, Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 28, 2015

4 Stars for "The Last Midwife". This is a wonderful novel about Gracy, the last midwife left in a small Colorado town in 1880. I keep saying historical fiction is not my thing and yet again I have fallen in love with a book of that genre! Gracy is accused of murdering the son of a prominent mining f......more

Goodreads review by Allyson on January 03, 2016

The characters in this book are really what made it bearable, as the story moved soooo sloooooowly. The main character, Gracy, was a full and developed character with a deep history that was revealed bit by bit as the story progressed. The end, while a good twist, was abrupt and sudden and left me w......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on October 09, 2015

Hmmm...I think the person who wrote the review for this book in the Denver Post was a bit generous. The story was ok. There was a twist or two, but nothing that truly inspired deep thought or surprise. My biggest frustration was that I think the author failed to capture the actual hardships of livin......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on November 18, 2022

3.5*** Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in the small Colorado mining town where she and her husband live. She’s delivered hundreds, if not thousands of babies, and the women of Swandyke trust and depend on her. But when a baby is found dead, and the father accuses Gracy of killing the child, she h......more

Goodreads review by Carole on October 05, 2015

Sandra Dallas writes about the women who won the west. She relates the stories of the people of the plains, the settlers who built homes on the raw land, everyday a fight for survival. Their stories are sometimes not pretty, yet she imbues their tales with courage, loyalty, and friendship- making th......more