Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

About the Author

Also by Sally Hepworth

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE SECRETS OF MIDWIVES. Copyright © 2015 by Sally Hepworth. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Hepworth, Sally.

    The secrets of midwives / Sally Hepworth. — 1st. ed.

          p. cm.

    ISBN 978-1-250-05189-9 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4668-5263-1 (e-book)

  1.   Midwives—Fiction.  2.   Family secrets—Fiction. I. Title.

    PR9619.4.H48S48 2015

    823'.92—dc23

2014033628

e-ISBN 9781466852631

First Edition: February 2015