The Midwife of Venice (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Midwife of Venice Beautifully told with exceptional skill, "The Midwife of Venice" brings to life a time and a place cloaked in fascination and mystery and introduces a captivating new talent in historical fiction.
Full description- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Published: 14 February 2012
- Format: Paperback 335 pages
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- Categories: Thrillers | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781451657470 ISBN 10: 1451657471
- Sales rank: 279,031
Full description for The Midwife of Venice
Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers--a gift aided by the secret "birthing spoons" she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but the payment he offers is enough to ransom her beloved husband, Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can Hannah refuse her duty to a suffering woman? Hannah's choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the baby and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. Not since "The Red Tent "or "People of the Book "has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history.
