FAITH: A Woman's Pregnancy Journey by Quinlan Motley, illustrated book cover

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FAITH

A Woman’s Pregnancy Journey

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Bellevue, Idaho

After repeated pregnancy loss, Hannah begins opening her table to other people in Bellevue, Idaho. Offering them a place in her life may mean accepting something harder for her: care she cannot arrange or control.

Biblical foundation: 1 Samuel 1 and 1 Samuel 2:1 through 11

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Room for other people. Room for joy.

Hannah once loved having people around her table. After three pregnancy losses, she has learned to keep the house quiet and her hopes to herself.

Then a neighbor arrives with an empty roasting pan and a broken oven. One imperfect Sunday dinner becomes another. Around Hannah's table gather people with their own unfinished lives: a widower learning to cook for one, a young mother trying to find room for her work, and an older friend who never brings just one dish.

Their company does not make everything easy. Hannah can offer a meal more readily than she can accept help, and a careless exchange threatens a friendship she has come to need. As she learns to make room for other people, she begins to discover moments of joy she had stopped expecting.

Set in Bellevue, Idaho, FAITH is a warm, quietly moving novella about pregnancy after loss, friendship, and the courage to let yourself be cared for. Inspired by the biblical Hannah, it follows an original modern woman's life with humor, tenderness, and room for uncertainty.

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English
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15,926 words · 66 page PDF
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Includes pregnancy loss, pregnancy after loss, and childbirth.

Word count includes headings and end notes in the complete EPUB; it is not a reading-time estimate.

Pregnancy after loss · Guarded joy · Friendship · Hospitality · Receiving care · Trust without certainty

Scripture and story

Biblical foundation

1 Samuel 1 and 1 Samuel 2:1 through 11

15 Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh. 16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”
1 Samuel 1:15–16 · World English Bible Classic

The Inspiration Note distinguishes Hannah’s biblical story from this original contemporary novel. Pregnancy loss is not treated as punishment or a measure of faith.

World English Bible (WEB), Classic edition. Public domain.

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