The wartime midWives was an absolutely wonderful read, it’s an easy read but one that kept my interest the whole way through. Great story and fabulous characters.

Thanks to NetGalley for an early copy in return for an honest review
A very good read and one I can highly recommend to others.
I could not put this down.
Thoroughly enjoyable with an amazing cast of characters that you cannot help but engage with.

What a wonderful book, it's very easy to compare it to call the midwife. It has the same warmth and drama.

All the characters come together in the Mary Vale home for unmarried expectant mothers alongside a convent. We meet Shirley, Isla, Emily, Nancy, and Daphne who are the expectant mothers and. Midwives Sister Ada and her support worker Anne, who is a nun. Also, a lady who at the insistence of her husband has evacuated there as she is pregnant and has a small son Robin.

There are two Characters who made the hairs on my neck stand up with their lack of morals and deviousness and that bring drama and betrayal to the book namely Sir Percival, who has spent most of his money gambling and has a high maintenance and very expensive mistress in his apartment in London so is looking for a way to make a fast buck and the Matron of the home who has feelings for Sir Percival, but he is married to in her words "a sop".

This is such a lovely story and had my emotions running high throughout. It is built on courage and love but has an element of fun in it. I couldn't put it down.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to review this book for you.

I loved this book set in a Mother and Baby home during the war years. Some of the mother's are sent to the house to have their babies secretly and then to return to their lives after having a baby adopted. They are looking for support from the midwives and the other young mums. As the war takes hold the home gets ready to have mothers who are escaping the areas at risk of bombing. The women really bond well together. It was really heartwarming in places.

The management of the home are not so kind and welcoming and they have to find out what is going on behind closed doors. You are willing them to get to the bottom of the problem. It makes you think about all the young girls who went through homes like this and all the heartbreak and stories they had to tell.

I am really keen to read more by Daisy Styles

Lovely rich story set against a mother and baby home in world war 2. A mixture of women brought together from such different backgrounds united by pregnancy and impeding births. There are the professional caring midwives to look after them, however the management of the house is as corrupt as it could be. Easy to read, satisfying ending.

This was a good story telling of the Mary Vale- a mother & baby home in the North of England. As England moves towards war many young women come there to hide away from shame & to have their babies.

In spite of the hideous Matron, the girls are supported by each other & by Nursing sister Ada & religious & nursing Sister Anne.

I have read previous books by Daisy Styles & she always captures the time & place of the action as well as creating characters that the reader cares about.

Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

An excellent book about the lives of pregnant young women sent to a mother and baby home to have their babies, run by nuns during the time before war with Germany. This book was one I couldn't put down, and it was very enjoyable.

I love Daisy Styles books and I always feel like I’m coming home when I pick up her new book. I’m a relative newcomer to them and it says a lot about her style and attraction that she is the only author of this genre that I read!! I really am a huge fan and signed up to this tour even though I’m away when the post actually goes out so any shares are very much appreciated!

It’s hard to believe that it’s not particularly that long ago that young unmarried mothers were so ashamed of getting pregnant that they were shipped off (in disgrace by their families or even checking themselves in unknown to their loved owns) to give birth and have their babies adopted. It was only the very brave few who went intending to keep their baby as being a single mother then wasn’t on the same level of acceptance as it is today!! But if they went somewhere like that then I would like to think that they would have had support from people like Ada or nuns like Sister Anna. They wanted the very best for the young women who had some very stressful and life changing decisions to make. But here we also see the unscrupulous side of adoption where money seems to talk and Matron alongside the horrible Percy, head of the governing body, are definitely listening to the sound of that cash rattling rather than the young women themselves.

There were some very tender moments between mums and babies plus some rather distressing scenes for some but even so, I adored this book from the very first page. It swept me into another time and place where I gradually came to feel like I really belonged in that era, it felt that authentic to me. It captured perfectly the British Way of life captivating me throughout even though I’m glad that I do live in a world where women are now empowered to make their own choices (well, here in the UK certainly even if other countries in our “civilised” society seem to have regressed recently!!) about motherhood.

Daisy Styles has taken women from different ways of life and in differing personal relationships as her main perspectives here and each of them brought a distinctive point of view with them. As an author, it’s her “thing” and she does it perfectly with each new book she brings out.

Heartbreaking, insightful and with a warmth of human nature that bats the scheming baddies out of the way, The Wartime Midwives is perfect for lovers of Call The Midwife. Well worth checking out if you’re a fan!

1939, in a home for unmarried pregnant women, something is not quite right. Matron is behaving strangely and babies are disappearing in the night. This is a fab saga, following the lives of young women who have been abandoned by society and sent away in disgrace. The outbreak of war brings an evacuee family into their midst and the mystery starts to unravel. An enjoyable and satisfying read.

There is a little bit of everything in this story including plenty of drama to keep things interesting with characters ranging from the loveable to the despicable. However one of the most important things in this book is the friendships that are at the heart of it. These women easily kept me turning the pages hoping that everything would work out for them in the end. They all had their individual situations but what brings them together is Mary Vale a mother and baby home where they all find themselves after falling pregnant.

The story moves at a lovely pace as we get to know the women who stay at Mary Vale along with the people that work there. There are a wide range of characters that pulled at my heart strings all with their own troubles and heartaches. This makes for a heartwarming read with uplifting moments and some sadness which all came together to create a lovely balance within the story. This is the first book that I have read by Daisy Styles but it won’t be my last. I found it to be a wonderfully light, warm and entertaining story.

The Wartime Midwives pulled me into the past and let me experience all of the lovely warm and comforting friendships easily leaving me with a smile!

I love the books of this author. She always writes a good story. This book rugs at the heartstrings
A definite book to read

I have a huge and rather embarrassing confession to make. Yes yet another one. Although I have Daisy’s other books on my ever increasing ‘To Be Read’ mountain, I haven’t actually read one yet. My Mam has read them all and she loves them. She is a wise woman. Judging by how much I enjoyed reading ‘The Wartime Midwives’, I can guarantee that her other books will not be on that mountain for very much longer. I flipping well loved, no make that adored, reading ‘The Wartime Midwives’ but more about that in a bit.
I must admit that my heart went out to all of the young ladies, who found themselves in trouble and expecting a baby. Some of the young girls went through some horrific experiences and as a result some of the girls give their babies up for adoption. It’s as if their baby is a permanent reminder of the trauma that they went through. Others of the young girls wanted to have fun before their sweethearts went overseas to fight for the Allies and the baby is the result., whereas others slept with their boyfriends, who turn out to be lying scumbags. Overall I wanted to jump inside the pages of the book to give the pregnant young women a huge hug and to reassure them that things would be ok. I was especially interested to see how the pregnant young women were treated by their parents and the wider community. Part of that is down to my own family tree. One of my Aunties had a relationship with a man she worked with and she ended up pregnant. The birth father was married and he was a man of some standing within the community. In our case, my Aunty was initially thrown out of her family home but she was eventually taken back in and she was looked after by her sisters. My Aunty was allowed to keep her baby.
Oh my word, ‘The Wartime Midwives’ certainly tugged on my heartstrings and then some. In fact the situation of the various young ladies actually made me develop a lump in my throat. I was hooked on ‘The Wartime Midwives’ from the very beginning and I just couldn’t put the book down. The book wasn’t exactly glued to my hand but it might as well have been because it came everywhere with me. I seemed to speed through the book and I was shocked to discover that I had read a third of the book when I looked up for the first time. I was enjoying the author’s writing style, the storylines and the characters so much that I noticed neither the speed with which the time was passing nor the speed with which the pages were turning. My desperation to find out how the story concluded seemed to soar with each page that I turned over. At one point the page numbers were speeding past so quickly that they became a blur.
For me, ‘The Wartime Midwives’ is superbly written. The book does what is says on the tin. The book is billed as being perfect for fans of ‘Call The Midwife’ and Donna Douglas. I honestly couldn’t agree more. I am a huge fan of the programme and Donna’s books . If there’s one thing this Ginger Book Geek likes, it’s historical fiction and ‘The Wartime Midwives’ certainly ticks the historical fiction box. The author grabs your attention from the start and she dangles enough bait to ensure that you keep on reading. I mean that in the nicest possible way. The author uses such powerful and vivid descriptions that I really did feel as though I had been transported back to Wartime Britain and back to a time when attitudes towards single mothers were a lot less enlightened than the attitudes we have today.
In short, I adored reading ‘The Wartime Midwives’ and I will definitely be recommending it to other readers. I can’t wait to read more from Daisy Styles but whilst I wait for her next book, I will definitely be reading her other books just as soon as I can. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a very well deserved 5* out of 5*.

I like Daisy's writing style, it's emotive, well researched and just thoroughly lovely.

Thanks for the opportunity to read and review 😊.

Wow what can I say, a heartwarming story of love and friendship at the start of the Second World War. Mary Vale was a mother and baby home run by Nuns. This book tells of the lives of the young girls, and women who went there to give birth. Although the came from all walks of life, and all had different experiences, they all bonded during their time there. A great read that I highly recommend

I loved this book and would highly recommend it to all. It has a great story line, brilliant main characters and is a real page turner. I couldn't put this book down.

Brilliant! This is a truly engrossing page turner of a book. It is at times an emotional rollercoaster as pregnant mums await the arrival of their babies, but all is not as it seems at Mary Vale house. As an ex midwife I found it really enjoyable and well written.

Absolutely loved this book! I'm always fascinated by wartime stories and I loved the fact that this was set in a mother and baby home and featured midwives. I haven't read one with the same type of setting and enjoyed it. Great characters and a fantastic writing style. Quite emotional at times too. A great read and highly recommended!

I love the books of Daisy Styles and she always pens a good story,This book tugs at the heartstrings,the friendhips formed and the care given to help the women deliver their babies and the help they are given to move on with their lives with or without their babies.definitely a book to read to read 5*

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for allowing me to read this arc.
Daisy Styles always delivers!!
A beautiful story of hardship and true friendship during the toughest of times for a group of women forced together in a home for single mothers, before, during and after they deliver their babies.
Despite the hardships, betrayal and sadness the women are mostly happy together and form true, everlasting friendship.

Love this Author! Another fantastic book. A heartwarming tale, a great story of how friendship and love will overcome the worst possible scenarios. Such fantastic characters, I'm going to miss them, didn't want the book to end.