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Father in Secret

He had to trust her with his secret

For once, Dr Theo McWilliam had more on his mind than Bendbrook Hospital’s Emergency Department. He was involved in a custody battle with his ex-wife for his four-year-old son, Sam. Life was complicated enough – and then Sister Savannah Laine arrived.

Despite Theo’s reluctance, a growing attraction developed between them, but he couldn’t bring himself to tell Savannah about Sam. Only Savannah had already been hurt by another man’s secrets, and Theo had to find a way to tell Savannah about his before he lost the trust of the woman he loved.

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The Last Minute Guide To Birth
Coming out in September 2010 from Penguin Australia, to help those last minute nerves and questions. New cover coming soon.

I’m very excited about my first Non-Fiction book, THE LAST MINUTE GUIDE TO BIRTH.

A midwife for twenty five years, I’ve always been passionate about sharing the insights I’ve gained about birth with women and their families.

When a mother-to-be walks into an antenatal class she has some questions she wants to ask first. One of them is “How will I know if I’m in labour?”and there’s heaps of answers after that. This book starts there. If you want an easy to read, last minute guide to those burning questions, I can’t wait to share.

wishing you a wonderful birth

Fiona
Midwife in a Million
To save a baby -Their gruelling race against time across the rugged Outback to save a patient’s unborn child challenges Kate and Rory physically and emotionally –

Available Feb – UK and NA, March, Australia

Why I wrote the book,

I loved the scenery in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’. I watched the movie and wondered why I’d never made it to the Kimberleys of Western Australia—apart from the fact it’s nearly two and a half thousand miles from my house. When the opportunity arose to attend a midwifery conference in Darwin that was enough serendipity for me to make the leap.

So followed a glorious week in the top end of Australia driving in an all-terrain vehicle across rock-strewn rivers, past magnificent escarpments and into the purple sunsets of the Kimberleys. Such fabulous land and fabulous people—that’s where Rory and Kate from ‘Midwife in a Million’ grew up.

Rory had always been Kate’s hero, the one who’d stood up for her in school, the only person who knew the real Kate—not the Outback royalty one. He was there for Kate at her most desperate times…except for the one time she didn’t tell him she needed him. And for the past ten years that secret was enough to destroy what they’d had.

In this book, Kate needs to transfer a young pregnant woman to Perth, through floods and storms and terrible roads, and it’s Rory who arrives to help. This is their journey. I hope you grow to love Kate and Rory as much as I did. They epitomize the strength, determination and humor of the people who live “top end.” I hope, too, that within the following pages you can glimpse the incredible beauty of the Kimberleys that thrilled me.

I wish you happy reading!

Fiona McArthur

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