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The Birth House

by Ami McKay

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First published: 2006
Pages: 346

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'The Birth House' is a historical fiction novel and the story is set in Nova Scotia. The story is about Dora Rare, the first daughter in five generations of Rares. In the story, she becomes an apprentice to Miss Babineau, an Acadian midwife, and learns to help all the women in their village through various challenges.

About the author

Ami McKay

Scots Bay, on the Nova Scotia shore of the Bay of Fundy, gave Ami McKay the material for her first novel. A house she moved into in 2000 had belonged to a midwife, and the stories attached to it became The Birth House (2006), a Canadian bestseller that took a Libris Award for fiction.