In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Amanda Lees discusses her latest book, The Midwife’s Child. It is the third book in a loosely connected series set during World War II, featuring female agents fighting in the Resistance. Her main characters in the books are all based on real women who were decorated for their leadership and heroism during WWII. Amanda loves history and credits one of her teachers in a convent boarding school for sparking her interest in the subject at an early age. She admits that The Midwife’s Child is the hardest book she has ever written. While the book is based on a real-life love story that Amanda came across during her research, the novel is partly set in Auschwitz. Amanda worked hard on this book as a way to honor those who were sent there, those who died and those who survived, and to be true to what happened. But Amanda is quick to point out that The Midwife’s Child, like all the other books in the series, is a story filled with courage and hope. In this episode, I’ll chat with Amanda about her writing journey, how coming back to the publishing industry after a long hiatus was a very different experience than when she first got started, and what she means when she says she writes “dangerously.”
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