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Title	:	The Birth House
Author	:	Ami McKay
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 408 pages
Published	:	March 6th 2007 by Vintage Canada (first published February 14th 2006)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Canada

The Birth House

Ami McKay

Paperback | Pages: 408 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 38729 Users | 2728 Reviews

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The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing and a kitchen filled with herbs and folk remedies. During the turbulent years of World War I, Dora becomes the midwife's apprentice. Together, they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives. When Gilbert Thomas, a brash medical doctor, comes to Scots Bay with promises of fast, painless childbirth, some of the women begin to question Miss Babineau's methods - and after Miss Babineau's death, Dora is left to carry on alone. In the face of fierce opposition, she must summon all of her strength to protect the birthing traditions and wisdom that have been passed down to her. Filled with details that are as compelling as they are surprising-childbirth in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, the prescribing of vibratory treatments to cure hysteria and a mysterious elixir called Beaver Brew- The Birth House is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women have faced to maintain control over their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine.

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Original Title:	The Birth House
ISBN:	0676977731 (ISBN13: 9780676977738)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dora Rare, Marie Babineau, Gilbert Thomas
Setting:	Canada Nova Scotia(Canada)
Literary Awards:	Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award (2007), Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book & Book Design (2007), OLA Evergreen Award (2007)

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The Birth House is one of the most unique and moving pieces of Nova Scotian literature I've ever read. The story of midwives and their struggles in a rural Canadian community, it's not only historical but also brilliant and imaginative.

I enjoyed this book. Mostly about a young woman, Dora, who is the only girl in a long line of all males in her dad's family. She is deemed "special" for a few reasons upon her birth. It takes place in a small village in Nova Scotia around the time of WWI & the life of the people in the town was quite interesting. Dora is friends with the town's medicine town/midwife. Through this relationship Dora also starts to "catch babies".I found some parts of the book a little far fetched but it is

I really loved this book. It was so well-written and a very fast read. I was a little more than skeptical given the subject matter since I really hated The Red Tent, I don't want children and I'm a believer in hospitals, modern medicine and clinical trials over "natural" remedies. Luckily, this book wasn't overly preachy or whiny at all. Yes, the author did set up the physician to be a complete villain to better illustrate her good = the old ways, bad = the modern ways. Seriously, given the

Wonderful book! Amazes me to think about what struggles women faced when it came to childbirth and maintaining control over their bodies in the early 1900s.

This was a great read! Set in a more remote part of Nova Scotia in the early part of last century. The family of Judah Rare were part of a group of Scottish immigrants who came because of being storm blown off course in the Scots Bay area during the last half of the 19th century, and stayed. The family was known to only have sons, except for Dora who in some ways might have been more like a boy should be at that time (and the story is set with all the mores and issues of that period of time, and

This book is a bit of a departure from my usual reading, but after reading a blurb on Goodreads about it, I was intrigued. Luckily, my local small-town library had this book available, so I checked it out. I'm glad I did. It is an enjoyable story. Dora Rare is special. She's the first girl born in the Rare family in five generations, and she has the gift of healing. A local midwife, Miss Babineau, begins to teach the young girl what she knows so that Dora can continue the tradition of folk

The Birth House by Ami McKay / William Morrow / 13-978-0-016 / 400pps / $24.95 When Ami McKay and her husband bought an old farm house in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia, she had no idea the history she would peel away from the walls or dig up in her yard. Removing layers of wall paper revealed plastered newspapers, tilling her soil unearthed bottle shards, and becoming pregnant led her to a midwife who related what she knew of the World War 1 village midwife that had once inhabited her very home.