Hummingbird House
Patricia Henley
An American midwife on holiday in Mexico decides to stay on to help the local people and a priest falls in love with her. Kate Banner is a woman in her forties from Indiana and the culmination of her work is a clinic and school in Guatemala.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- MacAdam/Cage Publishing
- Year
- 1999
- ISBN-13
- 9781878448873
- Genre
- FictionRomantasy
- Topics
- Forbidden loveHumanitarian workSelf-discovery
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1999)
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