Midwives

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Obstetrician Connie Danforth takes us back to 1981, the year she turned 14. It’s also the year her mother Sibyl - a midwife and hippy champion of home births – is accused by her young assistant, Anne, of carelessly killing a woman in labour…Anne won’t back down and the case goes to court. As an only child and ‘avid parent watcher’ Connie can’t keep her distance…