This book is just so good! Set in 1800’s New York City, we meet Axie Maldoon, one of the most bad-assed, scrappiest protagonists around. She begins life as an improvised child of Irish immigrants and makes her way through pluck, grit and sheer hard toil to become one of the richest, prominent and scandalous women in NYC. Inspired by the first and most infamous midwife in New York, My Notorious Life is about the pathway to women’s rights and ass-kicking women who led the charge.
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