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Mentioned as Sarah Reid's upcoming book, due out in September. It is presented as a companion to her academic and fictional work on the history of midwifery. Listeners wanting to explore the factual truths behind early modern midwifery would be interested in this title.

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Sarah Reid mentions this as a brand new book that came out the previous month, focused on women's lived experience of childbirth and community rather than a purely medical perspective. She highlights it as part of a scholarly trend toward centring women's own experiences of giving birth rather than relying on male-authored medical textbooks. A listener interested in social history of childbirth in the Georgian era would find this valuable.

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Sarah Reid discusses her own historical novel about a midwife practicing in 1665 against the backdrop of the Great Plague. The title refers to 'gossips,' the women who attended other women in childbirth — the midwife in the novel is the best in the area, hence 'The Gossip's Choice.' Listeners interested in historical fiction about early modern midwifery and the Great Plague would find this compelling.