It's time to be back in Port Agnes with the Cornish midwives. This stroy focuses on Izzy who is facing up to the prospect of losing her Nonna.

It's fantastic to catch up with all the other characters that we've met in the previous books.

This book is emotional rollercoaster with plenty of happy moments combined with sad moments. As always the team pulls together for each other and you can feel the community and love for each other.


You've got to trust it and have faith that everything else will work out.

Will everything work out for Izzy?

I loved reading A Leap Of Faith For The Cornish Midwife. I read this book on Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This novel is a delight to read and review.
I love reading books about medical profession and midwifery especially so this book was simply perfect for me. I liked this story because it was heartwarming and delightful in places and sad in others. The book dealt with love and loss beautifully.
I liked the plot of the book, I loved the main characters, I loved the furry friends too, and I loved Cornwall as a location for this story. In my reviews I always mention how I love to go visit exotic and beautiful locations via books and Cornwall and Devon fit this description perfectly. I can only recommend this book. It makes happy reading I think.

The novels in the Cornish Midwife series are always poignant and emotionally charged. The stories of these women are told showing how grief can affect your life but also how the community and hope can help you to move on.
The story of Izzy made me cry buckets and smile. It's a story that talks about the circle of life, about losing and finding.
As I love this series I went for this book without checking the plot. As I'm not Christian I appreciated how the author deals with faith, a crisis of faith and never makes it in a preachy way.
Izzy and Noah are interesting characters, their story is a bit slow at times but kept my attention alive.
I was happy to travel to Port Agnes, catch up with the characters I already knew and met some new.
Jo Bartlett delivers a compelling, emotionally charged, and engrossing novel, heartbreaking at times and life affirming.
A bitter-sweet story that I strongly recommend as it kept me reading one afternoon.
Many thanks to Boldwood Books, Rachel's Random Resources, and Netgalley for this arc, all opinions are mine

I love my little catch-ups with the Cornish Midwife community. There’s something warm and comforting about visiting some where familiar and each time there’s an interesting and entertaining new story and a bunch of shenanigans to keep you entertained. I’d happily read these books until the end of time.

What a wonderful book this is, just like the rest of the midwife series. Jo writes from the heart about the midwives and they are set in a stunning town in Cornwall.

Wonderful wonderful book in this series.Full of so many lovely characters a town that comes alive.Full of joy friendship and sadly grief.The book involvedme from beginning to end already looking forward to next in series.#netgalley #boldwoodbooks

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an early review copy.

This book is the story of Izzy and Noah.

Izzy was brought up by her grandparents because she was unwanted by her Mum. But, Izzy is aware that her grandmother doesn’t have much time left and is trying to spend as much time as she can with her. .

The vicar, has doubts over his faith, Izzy’s grandmother will be the person who makes the meet each other..

A couple lose their baby and Noah and Izzy help them in any way they can. It was lovely to meet the midwives and catch up with what’s happening in their lives.

This book was so heart warming and also so sad in parts. I loved the whole concept of the story. A story of grief, love, compaction, and of finding one's self. I would recommend this book very much. I did not realise there were others before so now I have to read them too.

A lovely read .Havn't read any other books in this series but it didn't make me enjoy this any less i was really impressed with the characters and the story. It had everything I like in a novel and was so emotional at times I needed tissues.Loved the location and the beautiful relationships between family members and also the midwives. Really recommend this book

Another success in the series of the Cornish midwife, loved reading about Nonna and pops and it broke my heart along the way, loved reading about the sexy new fit vicar who has a heart of gold and he manages to make everyone he meets feel like family. Loved little Pablo'and Franny's antics and reading about the good works of a midwife along the way, highly reccomend this read and was wonderfully descriptive about Cornwall

A highly emotive book, with some very difficult subjects covered.

Midwife Izzy lives with her grandparents, who have brought her up after her mother moved to the other side of the world. When they discover her grandmother does not have long to live, the family move into Port Agnes to build precious memories. Can they fill Eileen's final days with love and joy?

Vicar Noah finds himself covering the parish of Port Agnes, whilst doubting his own beliefs. Can he help the family cope with their feelings whilst struggling with his own?

Unfortunately I found the predictable relationship between Izzy and Noah very slow, and not totally believable. I did however adore Pablo and Franny, who were beautiful little characters!

The book also covers some extremely difficult maternity storylines, which I personally struggled to read. The author tackles them sensitively, but they made for tough reading.

What a lovely, lovely hug in a book this is, so many emotions but with such a wonderful ending, I even think I'll read it again

Another great book for this series! Jo Bartlett does an amazing job of balancing the romance parts of the stories with the midwifery parts. This is probably the most emotionally exhausting of the books. Between Izzy's grandmother's failing health and Nicole's miscarriage there is just so much going on - I highly recommend you keep a box of tissues nearby. But don't worry, there are plenty of uplifting and happy moments to keep this from being too heavy. I loved getting to know Izzy more and seeing her with her grandparents more. Her mother is a piece of work and would have loved just one scene where Izzy let her mother know what she thought of her (even just a post on Facebook to show people what she was really like) - but these characters are all much better people than me. Noah and Izzy came into one another's lives at exactly the right time for both of them. Noah's story and crisis of faith is one that I think a lot of people could relate to. I'm not a religious person and I was worried this would have too much of that kind of a tone to it - I was so glad to see that was not the case. Faith is an important part of the story for many of the characters but I didn't feel like I was being smacked over the head with it. Perfect example of it being a part of who some of the characters were, but not all they were. I hope the way in which Nicole's miscarriage is handled helps people better understand what a family goes through and offers help with how to be supportive.

You also get a quick check-in with all of the characters/couples from the previous books. It was good to see how Jess was doing and that her father was still putting in the work to be in Jess's life. His little romance with Frankie is especially adorable. I can't wait for the next book!

If you are a crier, then make sure you have tissues handy while you read this, as at times it was overwhelmingly emotional and I had a big lump in my throat.

Although there is still midwifery and some babies involved, this book is Izzy's story, and all she wants to do is make the end of her grandma's life as pleasurable as possible. She has a painful relationship with her mother and doesn't let people in easily.

Eileen, Izzy's gran, is drawn towards the church in Port Agnes, and as a result brings temporary vicar Noah into their lives.

Noah is having a crisis of faith of his own, and is struggling whether he even wants to be a vicar any more. And to say Izzy isn't the only one with objectionable parents would be an understatement.

As much as I did like Noah, and I loved his growing chemistry with Izzy, just the fact he was having trouble with his own belief in God, had me more on edge than normal when a vicar is present in a book. There isn't particularly much explicit religious based content, but I was constantly on edge for it, as it's never something I enjoy in a book, as a result I just couldn't quite get into the flow of this story as much as I wanted to.

At least with regards Noah.

The storyline involving Nicole though completely gripped me, and i absolutely loved getting to know Frankie at lot more, and hope she is getting her own book soon!

It's another enjoyable instalment in the series, and I hope to read more from my favourite midwives soon.

Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

I have mixed feelings about this book. Firstly it starts off very sad and brings the reader down. Then, it lifts you in spirits with the birth of babies but, later in it’s sad again. I found a lot of it hard to read as it’s not the sort of thing I want to read about as it brings back memories of loss with family members. So, that’s why I can only give it four stars. My thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for an honest review.

hold up ! i feel guilty now at first i was like this book what is happening but look at me now i fell in love .Yes it was a long wait there were complications but hey they ended up together good enough for me .Thank you to the author and her team such a good story happy endings

Another great instalment in a fantastic series of books.

Brilliantly written and tackling some important issues - bereavement, faith and family to name just three - Jo Bartlett never disappoints.

As well as Izzy's story we have the chance to catch up with some of the characters from previous books in the series.

I hope there is more to come from Port Agnes!

A sweet story though sad at times. That hits a little too close to home. As some who lost their own mother and the only link I have to her beside my sister is our grandmother I can't handle reading stories that involve losing a grandmother. So I have to admit I didn't finish this one. But what I did read I loved. All I can say is have tissues handy when you read this one.

It was great to catch up with Izzy and the midwife gang. I love these books and the undulations and challenges of daily life. I really enjoyed 'meeting' Franny and Pablo this time around.

Thank you netgalley for the arc for the a leap of faith for the Cornish midwife by Jo Bartlett in return for an honest review. who doesn't love a trip to Cornwall and especially port Agnes I adore this series and this book in particular is a real page turner.