The Birth of Love

by Joanna Kavenna

From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic novel of childbirth--past, present, and future

The year is 1865. In Vienna, Dr. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been hounded into an asylum by his medical peers, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed hands are the root cause of childbed fever. In present-day London, Bridget Hughes juggles her young son, husband, and mother as she plans her home birth, unprepared for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805091548
• ISBN13: 9780805091540
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"