A Bumpy Ride

Recalling events in a busy maternity hospital in the 1970s and 80s this hilarious account of a girl's ambition to be a midwife and her subsequent rise to a senior position in the profession would never happen today. Her unorthodox attitude to medics and management will send shudders through the big girls and boys in charge today. They can take comfort from the knowledge that the current system would squash her within a week. "I laughed and I cried on almost every page, I loved it!" says an unbiased reader.