01671cam a2200301 4500 388819466 TxAuBib 20180411120000.0 100504s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780446540193 0446540196 TxAuBib Garlock, Dorothy, 1919-2018. Stay a Little Longer. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010. 372 pages ; 21 cm. Tucker Family ; 1 Louise Watkins has her hands full. Her mother had been the town midwife, but when her daughter Alice died under her care, she refused to assist in a childbirth ever again. Since then Louise has assumed the work. She also takes care of Alice's six-year old, Charlotte, because the child's father was lost in World War I. But Louise's principal job is running the boardinghouse that is the family's main source of income. One day, Charlotte befriends a stranger ill with influenza, a man who has taken refuge in an old cabin in the woods nearby. Although badly scarred by wounds suffered in the War, he is strong and slowly recovers. When he gradually takes on odd jobs around the house, Louise accepts his help. She is drawn to him despite his disfigurement, and his voice is comforting, vaguely familiar .. 20100506. City and Town Life Fiction. Midwives Fiction. Mother-Daughter Relationship Fiction. Love Stories Fiction. Minnesota Fiction. Domestic Fiction. Historical Fiction. Tucker Family ; 1.