The German Midwife

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Author
Mandy Robotham
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Historical Fiction
Released
05 August, 2020
ISBN
9780008381653

The German Midwife

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An enthralling tale from the #1 Globe and Mail and USA Today Best Selling Author.“A powerful, haunting debut”-Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkAn enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz will love.Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive.But when Anke's work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. Eva Braun is pregnant with the Führer's child, and Anke is assigned as her midwife.Before long, Anke is faced with an impossible choice. Does she serve the Reich she loathes and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world?∗Published in the UK as A Woman of War∗Mandy Robotham's highly awaited next book, The Secret Messenger, is out now.

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Mandy Robotham's The German Midwife is a Powerful and Unforgettable Debut

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        Mandy Robotham
        About the author

        Mandy Robotham

        Mandy Robotham has been an aspiring author since the age of nine, but was waylaid by journalism and later enticed by birth. She's now a practising midwife who writes about birth, death, love and everything else in between. She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. This is her first novel.

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