I absolutely adored this book and devoured it over a couple of days! It has easily been one of my favourite books of the year and I can’t wait to read more from the author in the future!

I absolutely adored this beautifully written family tale. I felt like I was sitting in Aliet and Kiju's home watching the two timelines as events unfold. I loved 'The Berry Pickers' but 'The Birthing Tree' is now one of my favourite books of all time. Amanda Peters sprinkles magic into every line she writes and I will forever buy any Book she publishes!

Wow, Amanda Peters has done it again! I loved The Berry Pickers and this new release has had the same impact on me. It's emotional and educational, I felt really attached to the characters and was invested deeply in their stories.

I love reading about a culture I may not be familiar and when the book is really interesting I want to find out more information about the places and the people mentioned in the book so I start searching and I learn so many new things. I believe that if a book piques my interest this way the story was a success and that happened with The Birthing Tree. I wanted to find out more about the Mi'kmaq people and their beliefs and traditions and I've learned so many things through the book but through my own searching.

A wonderful book that felt like it opened a door into the lives and practices of the generations who sought protection from the Birthing Tree when they were giving birth. It showed how external influences can impact whole ways of life and that sometimes people will give up something so important to them without really understanding why.

It was really beautifully written and unfolds for the reader at the same time that Aliet comes to accept her past and present and find a way to move forward.

I picked up The Birthing Tree without any real expectations, but within just a few pages I found myself completely drawn in by Amanda Peters’ writing. The storytelling here is beautiful, I'm sometimes sceptical about dual timelines, but this is done really nicely.

What interested me most was the indigenous aspect of the novel, particularly the attention given to indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. The traditions around birth, land, family, and women’s knowledge were fascinating and moving, and I loved how the novel explored the tension between those inherited practices and the outside forces that seek to dismiss them.

This is a story about grief, identity, belonging, and the women who shape us, but it is also about reclamation of history, culture, and self. I loved it.

I’ve just ordered her previous novel (The Berry Pickers) from my local bookshop - I’m glad this book led me to her writing.

I really enjoyed the Berry Pickers by this author and I was so delighted to find bits from in it The Birthing Tree.
Beautifully written, I loved this book too.

Spanning decades of loss and reclamation, this sweeping yet intimate novel follows one woman’s journey to protect the land, the traditions, and the memory of the women who came before her—and to decide which parts of her inheritance she will carry into the future.

Such a lovely story so beautifully written. Aliet's story evolves with two intrwoven timelines. It is an emotional read that covers the racist treatment of North American Indians, family love and loss, as well as deep friendship.