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February 11, 2015

Today's Featured Title and Contest February 11, 2015
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that releases this winter. Read more about it, and enter today's Winter Reading Contest by Thursday, February 12th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE SECRETS OF MIDWIVES by Sally Hepworth, which is now in stores. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE SECRETS OF MIDWIVES by Sally Hepworth

"With empathy and keen insight, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel about the complex, lovely, and even heartbreaking relationships between mothers and daughters."
--- Emily Giffin

Three generations of women. Secrets in the present and from the past. A captivating tale of life, loss and love...

Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy --- including the identity of the baby’s father --- hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as possible. Her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let this secret rest. The more Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the more the lifelong differences between private, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace strain their relationship. For Floss, Neva’s grandmother and a retired midwife, Neva’s situation thrusts her back 60 years in time to a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughter’s --- one that, if revealed, will have life-changing consequences for them all.

As Neva’s pregnancy progresses and speculation makes it harder and harder to conceal the truth, Floss wonders if hiding her own truth is ultimately more harmful than telling it. Will these women reveal their secrets and deal with the inevitable consequences? Or are some secrets best kept hidden?

-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to read Sally Hepworth's bio.

-Click here to visit Sally Hepworth's official website.
-Connect with Sally Hepworth on Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Thursday, February 12th.

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