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The Midwife's Confession

by Diane Chamberlain · 2011

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Dear Anna,

What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I'm so sorry—

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The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle's suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle—her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her friends and family—described a woman who embracedlife.

Yet there was so much they didn'tknow.

With the discovery of the letter and its heartbreaking secret, Noelle's friends begin to uncover the truth about this complex woman who touched each of their lives - and the life of a desperate stranger - with love and betrayal, compassion and deceit.

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women’s fictionwomen’s fictionMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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adoptionadoptionMore like thisLess of thisfriendshipfriendshipMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 417 pages

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