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The birth house

McKay, Ami 1968- (Author).

Practicing midwife Dora Rare works in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia during the early part of the twentieth century, but the midwifery tradition is threatened when medical doctor Gilbert Thomas arrives with promises of fast, painless childbirth.

Book  - 2006
FIC McKay
1 copy / 0 on hold

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Location
Victoria Checked out
  • ISBN: 0676977723
  • ISBN: 9780676977721
  • ISBN: 9780676977738
  • Physical Description print
    x, 387 pages : illustrations
  • Edition 1st ed.
  • Publisher Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Canada Reads 2011
2007 winner of the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award
Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 29.95