Rachel Foster
The Secret Midwife of Berlin
This book starts in Berlin in 1939 during the war.
Clara is married to a German officer, Friedrich, and they have been together for a few years. As the war worsens pregnant Jews are turned away from the German hospitals and told they are not welcome and to find somewhere else to go. Clara finds this action by the hospital hard to understand as she works there as a midwife. Next thing she knows just because she is English suddenly her services are no longer at the local hospital.
Thankfully Friedrich finds her a job at another hospital who don't mind that she is English and she settles in.
Clara finds that she can't turn a blind eye to the Jewish families in need of a midwife and finds herself working for the resistance helping these women in their hour of need. Slowly word spreads about "The Angel of Light" what the Jews have come to call her and the Germans want to find her and put a stop to it.
This book draws you in from the first page and you really feel connected to the characters.
I am looking forward to reading more books by this author!
Thank you to Embla Books, NetGalley and Suzanne Fortin for the eARC of this book which I received for free in exchange for my review.
This book starts in Berlin in 1939 during the war.
Clara is married to a German officer, Friedrich, and they have been together for a few years. As the war worsens pregnant Jews are turned away from the German hospitals and told they are not welcome and to find somewhere else to go. Clara finds this action by the hospital hard to understand as she works there as a midwife. Next thing she knows just because she is English suddenly her services are no longer at the local hospital.
Thankfully Friedrich finds her a job at another hospital who don't mind that she is English and she settles in.
Clara finds that she can't turn a blind eye to the Jewish families in need of a midwife and finds herself working for the resistance helping these women in their hour of need. Slowly word spreads about "The Angel of Light" what the Jews have come to call her and the Germans want to find her and put a stop to it.
This book draws you in from the first page and you really feel connected to the characters.
I am looking forward to reading more books by this author!
Thank you to Embla Books, NetGalley and Suzanne Fortin for the eARC of this book which I received for free in exchange for my review.