Books that touch your heart and feed your soul.
Sue’s newest novel, THE MIDWIFE’S TOUCH, has already been a top ten Amazon bestseller. Buy here:
An odyssey so action-packed I could barely put it down. Whew! What a read!” Midwest Book Review
A Note from Sue:
I’m delighted to announce I’ve been working hard on the sequel to the THE MIDWIFE’S TOUCH, now in the 5th draft (of 6). I can’t wait to get it out there for you to read!! We will be doing a cover reveal, contests, and promos.
Founded on Ozark superstitions, folk medicines, Cherokee traditions, 19th century obstetrical practices, and the elite lifestyles that characterized New York City’s Gilded Age, THE MIDWIFE’S TOUCH is quintessential Sue Harrison–meticulous research as the perfect foil for the rich inner lives of her odd and beautiful characters.
SHanty Cove Books
All the hallmarks of a Sue Harrison book: immersive sense of place, complex and believable characters, and a great story. A wonderful and original premise is just the icing on the cake.
Janie Chang, International Bestselling Author
I love this novel. Sue Harrison has written a compelling story of a woman with a cursed gift that can help people but can also encourage corrupt, greedy souls.
Priscilla Cogan, National Bestselling Author
This is a character-driven novel and a good one, but it’s also a story of family—both those we’re born to and those we create.
Historical Novels Review
A bewitching woman pursues a new kind of freedom in the exciting historical novel, The Midwife’s Touch.
An odyssey so action-packed I could barely put it down. Whew! What a read!
…thought-provoking . . . intriguing to read….
Entertainment Weekly Article Published on August 24, 1990
Until recently, Sue Harrison was known mostly for making the best bread-and-butter pickles in Pickford, Mich. (pop. 600). Now she is famous for more than that. Doubleday has just gone back for a fifth printing (a total of 100,000 copies) of Mother Earth Father Sky, Harrison’s 313-page novel about the Aleutian peoples in prehistoric times. The publisher gave her a staggering half-million-dollar advance for the book, the first of a projected trilogy, and is spending another $100,000 on publicity.
Join me now in the fire circle. The night presses hard against our backs, but the voices of the ancients leap like flames to scatter the darkness. Listen! Do you hear them?
The Stories are about to begin…
The Alaska Books
Thank you for these beautiful comments, Kathy, Dave, and Esther.
I love her books!!!
Having been diagnosed with cancer on my husband and my 48th wedding anniversary, August 23rd 2023.
I was on a journey, but my journey was sadness.
Reading the wonderful books by Sue Harrison has picked up my spirits and traveled me in time to places I never dreamed. She brought me to safe realms where I wasn’t harmed. But while reading I could almost see a reality forming on each page, to take me away from my sadness of cancer, and bringing me to homes of others going through their journeys.
Please continue bringing happiness into my life with each new book and a friendship formed by the love we share on each of our journeys in the lives we live in our 22nd century!
By:
Kathy Pianosi-October19,2024@11PM
Reading ‘Mother Earth Father Sky’ – Wow– It is so hard to find great books these days that take the reader on a journey of the soul. It really is like going back in a time capsule and being amonst the ancestors who lived 7000 BC. Chagak, the young female heroine, is a vividly drawn woman who has to overcome many ordeals and transformations as the story evolves. As an author I know how hard it is to re-invent the past from imagination, as there is little or no information on how people lived, talked, communicated, and survived from day to day. Only the archeology of dwellings and artifacts give us a basic overview of how they lived and utilised tools and other things. But giving life, breath and soul to characters, as Sue Harrison does, is an incredible achievement. Also, the neat structure of chapters keeps the reader on thier toes, wanting to turn page after page, and the plot never becomes dull or boring. Presently I am approaching agents with my work, a historical fiction-a saga of valour, treachery and self-discovery- and I acknowledge Sue Harrison as one of my favoaurite author’s who has influenced my work. Looking forward to reading the trilogy and having first editions in my house to peruse and learn from. Thank you Sue for your inspiration.