The Irish Midwife: The brand-new, page-turning, romantic, heartwarming, heartbreaking and touching historical romance novel for 2025, set just before WW2
By (Author) Sena Tinley
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
9th December 2025
11th September 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Romance: wholesome / clean
Historical fiction
Family life fiction / Stories about family
Narrative theme: coming of age
Narrative theme: love / relationships
Narrative theme: health and illness
Historical romance
Romance: medical
Narrative theme: death, grief, loss
Paperback
416
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 30mm
280g
Peggy Cassidy is a milly, working in the Belfast linen mills to just about get by. But Peggy also has another job - a secret one. She works as a handywoman - an illegal midwife, tending to the women of her community in their time of need.
When Peggy is offered the chance to leave Belfast to receive formal midwifery training in Dublin, it sets off a chain of events that will change her life forever. But amongst her middle-class colleagues, Peggy must keep the truth about her past secret at all times. If the realities of her life in Belfast are revealed, she could lose everything she has worked for. And when she meets a well-to-do doctor down in Dublin, she must make a decision: should she protect her family and her history Or can she let herself fall in loveSeana Tinley is an Irish author of saga historical romance. She also writes regency romance as Catherine Tinley.
After a career encompassing speech & language therapy, Sure Start, being President of a charity, and managing a maternity service, she now works as NI Country Director for a leading UK charity. Seana was appointed as chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association in August 2024. She lives in Ireland with her husband, children, and dog.