Patricia Harman
Author of The Midwife of Hope River
About the Author
Patricia Harman has spent over thirty years caring for women as a midwife, first as a lay-midwife, and later as a nurse-midwife in teaching hospitals and a community hospital birthing center. She became an RN as the first step in getting licensed as certified nurse midwife. In 1985 she began her show more training at the University of Minnesota where she received her MSN in Nurse-Midwifery. She has been a nurse-midwife on the faculty of The Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University and most recently West Virginia University. She also spent several years in private practice, before the rising costs of liability insurance for Obstetrics caused her to give up deliveries. The change in life style afforded Harman the free time to pursue writing. She has written two memoirs; Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journey, and The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir. She has also written several novels; The Midwife of Hope River and The Reluctant Midwife, which comprise the Hope River Series. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Birthdate
- 1943-11-01
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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The Reluctant Midwife: A Hope River Novel by Patricia Harman
A heart warming and at times wrenching story of Becky and Patience, two "medical" personnel during the Great Depression. Patience is a midwife and often calls upon Becky for help. Meanwhile, Becky works two days at week a the CCC camp as a nurse. Great depression era feel (4 stars) The story was average. (3 stars) 409 pages
½
Gentle pleasant read - enjoyed it very much. Thank you!
I absolutely LOVED Patricia Harman's novel, THE MIDWIFE OF HOPE RIVER (a must read!) and I really enjoyed this book (non-fiction) about a year or more in her life as a midwife. About the only thing I didn't care for was the splattering of TMI about her personal sex life. Otherwise, great stories about many of her patients, very interesting!
Probably should give it 5 stars as I really enjoyed it (I'm picky with my 5 stars!) Very interesting to read all the midwife information from years ago, had a hard time putting the book down. Oh, what the heck, I'm changing it to 5 stars!
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