Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

· Call the Midwife Trilogy Book 1 · Sold by Penguin
4.5
92 reviews
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352
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The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey

Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side.

An unfortgettable story of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the strength of remarkable and inspiring women, Call the Midwife is the true story behind the beloved PBS series, which will soon return for its sixth season.

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4.5
92 reviews
Renee Fuller
May 3, 2018
I don't think it should have included a dissertation on Cockney speech as being part of the text, nevermind the boring medical definitions that were tacked on. I would have to be Mad to purchase the next volume at the ridiculous price advertised. I think the TV show is superior, and that is rare indeed.
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Megan Glass
March 2, 2014
I really enjoyed reading this book after having watched the series. The chapters are short and do not always carry over to the next so it was easy to put down and pick up again (if you must). I can't wait to start the next book!
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Jacqui Broesky
May 11, 2014
I found myself not wanting to put this book down and wishing I were there to experience it along side her! If you are a bit of a birth junkie, as I am, you will love it!
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About the author

Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. She then moved to London to train as a midwife. She later became a staff nurse at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, and then ward sister and sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Euston. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 Jennifer left nursing in order to study music intensively, gaining the Licentiate of the London College of Music in 1974 and a Fellowship ten years later. Jennifer married Philip Worth in 1963 and they lived together in Hertfordshire. She died in May 2011, leaving her husband, two daughters and three grandchildren. Her memoirs are the basis for the popular TV series Call the Midwife.

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