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When 20-year-old Linda Fairley had her first taste of midwifery as St Mary's Maternity Hospital, Manchester, it was a place from a bygone era. Nurses in full skirts & starched caps hurried around steaming laundries & milk kitchens, Matron's commands booming after them. Outside the hospital walls, Manchester was in full sixties swing; colour filled the streets; the moon landing dominated the headlines & the Beatles blasted from every radio. Little did Linda know then the trials she would face. As the years passed & Greater Manchester changed around her, she dedicated herself to its parents, often racing along the cobbled streets to the aid of women rich & poor
- most times delivering a little miracle, but others the hardest of news. Forty years & over 2000 babies later, Linda is one of Britain's longest-serving midwives. Told with warmth & a good dose of Mancunian humour, this is the story of babies & parents, of a time long gone, & of one truly inspiring woman.