The birth house : a novel
/ by Ami Mckay
- New York : Harper Perennial , 2007, c2006.
- 385 p. ; 20 cm.
The first daughter in five generations of her Nova Scotia family, Dora Rare becomes an apprentice to a gifted midwife and storyteller before their home is threatened by the arrival of a brash medical doctor who promises sterile and painless births.