Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and the author for my gifted ebook to write my honest review for the tour.
Can she finally put herself first, in order to find love?
Peggy Cassidy is a milly, working in the Belfast linen mills to just about get by. But Peggy also has another job – a secret one. She works as a handywoman – an illegal midwife, tending to the women of her community in their time of need.
When Peggy is offered the chance to leave Belfast to receive formal midwifery training in Dublin, it sets off a chain of events that will change her life forever.
But amongst her middle-class colleagues, Peggy must keep the truth about her past secret at all times. If the realities of her life in Belfast are revealed, she could lose everything she has worked for.
And when she meets a well-to-do doctor down in Dublin, she must make a decision: should she protect her family and her history? Or can she let herself fall in love?
The first book in a heartwarming new historical romance series, for fans of Dilly Court, Anna Jacobs, Rosie Goodwin and Call the Midwife.
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My Review
Historical sagas always give me that warm, fuzzy feeling. The Irish Midwife is set in the 1930s in Ireland, and we meet Peggy Cassidy, a woman who works as a milly in the Belfast linen mills. She also works as an illegal midwife, known as a handywoman. She helps women in her community in their time of need.
There are changes ahead and romance, too, but can she allow herself to completely fall in love when her history and family need protecting too?
This is the first time I have heard of this author, but I couldn’t wait to get to know Peggy Cassidy. I have never been to Ireland, but the sense of community reminded me of our communities back before the NHS and when the mills and mines were the main source of employment.
I was rooting for Peggy Cassidy from the start. She had everything going against her in 1930s Ireland, her class, her gender and what she did to help the women. Seána Tinley has definitely created characters that have stolen my heart. I didn’t want to go to sleep until I finished. I was so immersed in this era that I felt like I had left modern life behind. The midwifery just reminded me of the Call the Midwife series on the tv.
A brilliant start to a new series that is full of heart! Full of nostalgia, emotions, and community, I am so glad I have been introduced to this series!!
Author Bio
Seána Tinley is an Irish author of saga historical romance. She also writes regency romance as Catherine Tinley.
After a career encompassing speech and language therapy, Sure Start, being president of a charity, and managing a maternity service, she now works as NI Country Director for a leading UK charity.
Seána was appointed as chair of the Romantic Novelists’Association in August 2024.
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