This book is a story for and about women. It is a story of family and healing, and the changing place of women as midwives and healers throughout the years. It is a novel based on a true story. It tells of women who demand respect and in the end, receive it.
Deborah Leeds comes from a family where the women are devoted to Brigid, a goddess of the Celts. Events in her family and a hope to avoid the persecution that is becoming even more common in her native England, she moves to a town in New Jersey. It is Colonial times and she finds herself in a Quaker community.. and in fact the wife of a Quaker man.
She bears many children, and continues her heritage if practicing as a midwife, while continuing to honor Brigid... and teach her own daughter the old ways.