Nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn, weeks away from giving birth, gathers up her journals, poems, letters, stories, and thoughts in a collection to share with her daughter on the occasion of the unborn child's sixteenth birthday.

Shunned Anna Mae doesn't receive the welcome she expects when she pays a visit for Christmas and her world begins to fall apart, leaving her to question her place in her family -- and her faith in Amish tradition.

Julia, having fantasized for the entire fifteen years of her marriage to Jim about Ray, the college boyfriend that got away, finds her life totally disrupted when she becomes pregnant--perhaps by Ray--at the wedding of an old school friend.

A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.

Livesey here tells the deceptively simple love story of Zeke, a 29-year-old painter and carpenter with the face of a Raphaelite angel, and 37-year-old Verona, a pregnant radio host.