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Also by Soraya M. Lane:

The Underground Sisters, June 2026
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The Pianist's Wife, February 2025
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The Secret Midwife, August 2023
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The Secrets We Left Behind, May 2021
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The Last Correspondent, November 2020
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The Girls of Pearl Harbor, September 2019
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The Spitfire Girls, March 2019
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Hearts of Resistance, January 2018
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Wives Of War, July 2017
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Voyage of the Heart, November 2014
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THE SECRET MIDWIFE
By: Soraya M. Lane

Lake Union Publishing
August 2023
On Sale: August 1, 2023
ISBN: 1662504063
EAN: 9781662504068
Kindle: B0BQND5QN4
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Women's Fiction Historical

From the bestselling author of The London Girls comes a story of courage and resilience amidst the horror of Auschwitz—and one woman’s last chance to share it with the world.

London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs an appeal for information on the identity of a midwife who saved hundreds of lives, Emilia knows it is time to finally tell her story.

Occupied Poland, 1942: Despite the constant presence of German soldiers in her village, Emilia is allowed certain freedoms as a midwife—the most precious is innocently cycling past Nazi checkpoints to the homes of expectant mothers on her rounds. But Emilia has a secret: for years she’s also been visiting the hidden Jewish mothers and working for the resistance…until she is betrayed.

Suddenly a prisoner of Auschwitz, Emilia is surrounded by horror and despair. When she is put to work as a midwife in the camp, she realises that she has a chance to bring a small glimmer of hope to the pregnant women of Auschwitz. Alongside a brave imprisoned doctor, Aleksy, and an innocent outcast, Lena, she comes up with a dangerous plan. A plan that if discovered could mean a fate far worse than death, but if they act undetected, they could save countless lives…

The Secret Midwife is a work of fiction, but inspired by many real-life accounts of the Polish resistance, the brave doctors, nurses and midwives imprisoned in the camps and those who fought to save as many lives as possible in Poland during World War II.