THE MIDWIFE’S TALE: At Home in Trinity #1 by Delia Parr
If you love family stories with interesting characters and a
moral, you will love THE MIDWIFE’S TALE.
Martha, the midwife of the title, is searching for her runaway daughter
and dealing with the new doctor in town who doesn’t think much of midwives. A charismatic “minister” has brought seven orphaned
New York City boys to town to reform them. An old friend of Martha’s is no
longer a friend. An old love interest is
now widowed and interested - perhaps. And there are the babes to be born, friends
to tend to and the town of Trinity -- itself a character in the tale.
The plots move along quickly, the characters are believable,
the idiosyncrasies of the era are used effectively and the somewhat archaic words
are clear from context. My one quibble with
the author is the use of action words that occasionally do not fit the actual
action, for instance on page 226, Martha “ventures” down a hall in a house she
knows quite well. There were others that caused me to stop and reread passages and
lose the momentum of the story: a minor thing but one that caused me to notice
the writing rather than the story.
A good story that will please readers who desire a Christian
story with no overt sex, no violence and clean language.
4 of 5 stars
