![]() ![]() I was grappling with that, and my books are always awash in autobiographic minutiae. It’s not a coincidence that the book hinges upon the death of a mother. And the novel took a hard turn into what has become my specialty: dread. It was published in March 1997.īut then my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, and she died six months later. ![]() It’s not a coincidence that the book hinges upon the death Midwives is one of my earliest novels. This short sentence gives you a sense of that.īut then my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, and she died six months later. I had imagined a gently comic novel narrated by a midwife’s daughter about her hippie parents and her hippie parents’ friends. ![]() When I began the book, I hadn’t expected it would be a courtroom drama about a woman who dies in a homebirth gone tragically wrong. ![]()
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