Best for: Anyone interested in how maternity wards are run and what life for a midwife is like. In a nutshell: Secret Midwife ‘Pippa’ shares her time as a midwife, from starting training at age 17 through having to be signed off for stress as cuts to the NHS made staffing more and more scarce. Worth quoting: Audio book that I listened to while running, so I didn’t make note of any. Why I chose it: I find memoirs (and comedy books) to be best […]
Babies and Bad Management
The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth by The Secret Midwife