Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2013
EDITION
First Scribner hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
438 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781451698060 (hbk.), 1451698062 (hbk.), 9781451698077 (pbk.), 1451698070 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
An evocative tale based on the life of a controversial Victorian New York City midwife features plucky orphan Axie Muldoon, who recounts her apprenticeship and establishment of a thriving practice that is threatened by a censorious zealot