The Midwife's Daughter
- Published: 2 January 2013
- ISBN: 9780241962763
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
Ferguson should be better known . . . she draws on years of experience working as a nurse and midwife to produce acute, skilful descriptions
FT
Hugely enjoyable, classic storytelling
Red
Moving seamlessly between characters, she shines light on barely-conscious thoughts and feelings to great, often ironic effect . . . a sympathetic, psychologically acute and thoroughly involving tale
Daily Mail
One of the most brilliant novelists around . . . funny, gripping, wonderfully shrewd
Amanda Craig, Independent
Strong, affecting, vividly depicted . . . It is a pure pleasure to read
Lionel Shriver, Telegraph
She is precisely the kind of writer whose novels you'd expect to find advertised on tube billboards and selling in the hundred thousands - plotty, emollient, fluent, concerned with relationships and what fosters or thwarts them, and capable of making you root for the characters
Guardian
A masterfully detailed, compassionate and enthralling story, rich in surprising revelations and beautifully plotted.
Miranda Seymour
The Midwife's Daughter is warm and wise, heart- breakingly sad and yet somehow uplifting too.I've been a big fan of Patricia Ferguson for many years - and I think this is her finest novel yet.
Jacqueline Wilson