Robert Johnson is a gentleman’s outfitter on the New North Road, a pale and pliable man worn down by trade until no great question has ever touched him. Then his young wife’s first confinement goes badly, and through one long day of doctors, waiting and listening at the stair he is forced to feel life and death in earnest.
A short medical story by a former doctor, notable for its frankness about childbirth. Download the free EPUB.