Frontline Midwife

Searingly honest … This brutally powerful memoir is full of incidents and suffering that will stay in your head … Although it’s a stark read, Frontline Midwife is totally absorbing because Kent holds nothing back, including about her own tragic experiences of miscarriage and loss. The book offers a window into a world that few of us could honestly face’ * Independent *
Few can lay claim to a career as eventful as that of Anna Kent, a midwife who spent years delivering babies in war zones and refugee camps across the world. Her poignant memoir is a deeply thought-provoking red, at once devastating and brimming with hope * Woman’s Own *
Extraordinary … A sensationally powerful account of humanitarian aid work, the amazing people working in the field and attending patients, and the life-giving work of the medical profession both at home and overseas. A book that will stay with you * WI Life *
An extraordinary, profoundly moving, all-consuming memoir that transports the reader deep into its world of heat, heartbreak, agonising moral dilemmas, and joy eked out against the backdrop of crisis. I haven’t stopped thinking about Frontline Midwife since I finished reading it – Oliver Burkeman, author of FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS

The heart-wrenching tale of one midwife’s quest to help others –and make peace with herself – in some of the world’s most challenging environments

Anna Kent is a humanitarian aid worker, NHS nurse and midwife. After receiving a Nursing Master’s Degree from the University of Nottingham, she completed a Diploma in Tropical Nursing in London and joined Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in 2007. She gained her First Degree in Midwifery in 2010 and has worked as a midwife across the world, including in South Sudan, Haiti, Bangladesh and the UK.

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