One of Elena Ferrante's best 40 books by female writers When Maria,
the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless
Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed - she finally has
the love and affection she craves. But her new 'soul mother' is
keeping something hidden from her, a secret life that is intimately
bound-up with Sardinia's ancient traditions and customs. Midwife to
the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is
revered and feared in equal measure as the village's Accabadora.
Bonaria tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as
an angel of mercy, until, moved by the pleas of a young man
crippled in an accident, she breaks her golden rule of familial
consent. The consequences - for Bonaria, for Maria and for the
whole village, are devastating - and cause a rift between the two
women that can only be bridge by another death. Translated from the
Italian by Silvester Mazzarella
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