Becky has a career as a nurse. Becky loves her job but the part she doesn't care for is helping deliver babies. Becky works for Dr Blum. However, due to some unforeseen circumstances, Dr Blum can no longer practice. Dr Blum's wife has died and he has clammed up. Dr Blum is like a zombie, and the only who will take care of him is Becky.

So Becky packs up the car, and takes Dr Blum with her to go see her old friend Patience who is a midwife in Becky's home town of Hope River. Patience is very happy to see both of them and try's to convince Becky to help her out by being a midwife. Becky wants no part of it, but due to not being able to find a job to support her and Dr Blum she has no choice.

While I am not a big fan of books that are in the early 1900's, Patricia Harman's book really caught my attention. I found that even though THE RELUCTANT MIDWIFE is set in the early 1900's it really could be set at any time in the century. The struggles that Becky had to go though remind me of my own life in some ways.

Harman has a way of writing that you can feel the friendship coming off the page. I did notice in Patricia Harman's bio that she herself is a midwife. I feel this is how she could write such a great book of how a midwife has to learn to handle any situation that might come up while delivering a baby. THE RELUCTANT MIDWIFE is a great book which, makes me more willing to read books that I think are not my usual reads.