http://www.amazon.com/Midwyf-Liza-Valerie-Levy/dp/1451581211/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282983443&sr=1-1
If you know of others who would also like a copy, it works out much cheaper to buy 4 copies (don't you just love my optimism!) - you get the 4th one free and also you save on postage. According to my calculations, each book then works out at just over £6
The year is 1339. Liza’s midwifery skills are needed by the inhabitants of Hollingham. Knowing this keeps the lonely old woman going, together with the occasional ‘trip’ to her long dead husband and children. But she makes one mistake, and the villagers begin to suspect she is using occult spells to harm them. She tries desperately to regain their trust, but time is running short. Rosalind, rich, lonely and naïve, wants to experience true love and falls in love with a monk, by whom she conceives a child. Liza and the Lady Isabella, Rosalind’s mother, must pick up the pieces. None of the three women will ever be the same again.
LIZA is the first book in the MIDWYF series, which tells the story of midwives, women and childbirth in England from medieval to modern times. Although it's a work of fiction, the midwifery is based, as far as possible, upon fact. I have woven the story around childbirth in those times - the herbs and potions, superstitions and practices.
LIZA was published about 3 weeks ago on Amazon.
I'm now writing the next in the series, MARGERY (provisional title) which tells the story of midwifery and childbirth in Stuart England, about 1630.
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