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The Happy Birth Book: Your Trusted A-Z of Pregnancy, Birth and the Early Weeks

Beverley Turner and Pam Wild

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'If you're having a baby this is a MUST READ. Get the birth you want whatever path you choose'...

Dean (6927 KP) rated Eastern Promises (2007) in Movies

Feb 25, 2018

Eastern Promises (2007)

2007 | Drama, Mystery

7.5

(4 Ratings)

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This is very similar to A Histroy of Violence with the same director (David Cronenberg) and Viggo Mortensen teaming up again. It is just as violent and possibly more bloody and graphic. The acting is of a very good standard and although it is a bit slow at times you are likely to be engrossed in the story too much to notice.
A midwife delivers the child of a young Russian girl who dies at birth. Trying to trace her relatives she gets her Russian uncle to translate her diary which only uncovers a look into the life of the Russian mafia in London. If you liked A History of Violence, The Godfather you should really like this film.

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How to Grow a Baby and Push it Out: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Pregnancy and Birth

Clemmie Hooper

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Everything you wanted to know but were too embarrassed to ask - a guide to pregnancy and birth...

A Woman of War

Mandy Robotham

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Taken from the camps to serve the Führer himself, Anke Hoff is assigned as midwife to one of...

Turning the Tide

Edith Maxwell

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A suffragist is murdered in Rose Carroll's Massachusetts town Excitement runs high during...

ClareR (5879 KP) rated Once Upon a River in Books

Mar 27, 2019

Once Upon a River

Diane Setterfield | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry

6.8

(6 Ratings)

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A beautiful story of the Thames

It’s really hard to read through tears, you know. And that’s just what I had to do through the last chapters of this book. This book held my attention throughout. Its beautifully, lyrically written - it has a real feel of the fairytale and supernatural about it (Quietly, the Ferryman), set alongside the practical and realistic (Rita, the nurse/ midwife).
This is a story that follows several characters who come together because of a drowned child who comes back to life. The fantastical runs alongside the everyday, and the Thames runs alongside all of it.
I loved this book, it’s gentle pace (like the Thames on a good day, perhaps!), and the people who populated its pages. It really is a gorgeous book and well worth reading.

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Lindsay (1760 KP) rated The Amish Midwife in Books

Feb 15, 2018

This was about Lexie finding her biological family. She is searching for her Identity. Her father died and told her about a box that came and when she finds it set her on mission to find her birth parents. She goes to Pennsylvania to help a midwife in trouble. Though she was to start working in Philly.

She learns some Amish words though her patients that she learns with some true meaning. People in her family are hiding information about her. She arrives at Marta Bayer home and Marta get angry at her. If you want to read more about the surprise or not for she finds a surprise that will be quite suprising to find out. Does Lexie get her Story. You need to read to find out.