Who is Ma from Running Out of Time?

Ma is Jessie's mother. Her other children are Andrew, Hannah, and Katie. She is married to the village blacksmith. Ma is the village midwife, as well as the first person people go to when they're sick. Clifton Village is a replica of a setting from the 1800s. Ma's children don't know they're living in a replica, and that the rest of the world is living in 1996.