Roberta Rich
Author
Series
Midwife novels (Roberta Rich) volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers--a gift aided by the secret "birthing spoons" she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but the payment he offers is enough to ransom her beloved husband, Isaac, who...