The Call the Midwife Trilogy - Book 1
Call the Midwife
“Nicola Barber uses a rich Cockney accent to deliver an insightful portrayal of Jennifer Worth’s memoir of nursing and midwifery in the East End of London in the 1950s…Graphic descriptions of sex, prostitution, and a brothel leave nothing to the imagination. Still, this is a rare and moving listening experience.”
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Jennifer Worth’s account of her experiences as a midwife in 1950s is a fascinating slice of social history.
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with twenty-four children who couldn’t speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side—illuminate a fascinating time in history.
Beautifully written and utterly moving, Call the Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is a mother and everyone who has a mother.
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