Birthing a child is dangerous in medieval England. Liza would love to help - but can she be trusted?
Liza should never have cursed Nicholas. She knows that. Not the action expected of a midwife who's given a lifetime of service to Hollingham. Now the villagers ask, is she a witch? Is she using the old magic? All Liza wants is to be needed, to use her skills to help birth the babies. And, from time to time, to visit her long dead husband and children, but it's all becoming very difficult.
Events at the Manor House are not helping. Young Rosalind, shortly to be married to a rich lord, is pregnant and he is not the father. That honour belongs to the monk in charge of the local Infirmary. The Lady Isabella, Rosalind's mother, enlists Liza to help retrieve the situation. The three women scheme their way through, but each is changed for ever.
Midwyf is written in historical fiction genre, but the midwifery and medical practices are as authentic as medieval records permit.