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Story Description:
St. Martin’s
Press|January 8, 2013|Hardcover|ISBN: 978-1-250-01076-6
In the tradition
of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes Samuel Thomas’s remarkable debut, The Midwife’s Tale.
It is 1644, and
Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of
York. Even as the city suffers at the
rebel’s hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of
rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends,
Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be
burnt alive. Convinced that her friend
is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.
Bridget joins
forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who’s far more skilled with a knife than
any respectable woman ought to be. To
save Esther from the stake, they must dodge rebel artillery, confront a
murderous figure from Martha’s past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop
at nothing to cover his tracks. The
investigation takes Bridget and Martha from the homes of the city’s most
powerful families to the alleyways of its poorest neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther’s
murdered husband they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply
sinister secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand in
hand.
My Review:
Okay, so I’ve had
this book now for six months since it came out in January. I have attempted to read it twice each month
since that time and just cannot get into it at all. I even selected different locations inside
and outside the house to sit and read to see if it would somehow make a
difference but it was all to no avail.
I don’t think it’s
a bad book in any way it’s just not a book that I was interested in. Hopefully, someone else out there might appreciate
it more than I did.
Sorry folks.
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