Call the Midwife A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times |
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Author:
| Worth, Jennifer |
Read by:
| Barber, Nicola |
Series title: | The Call the Midwife Trilogy Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-6651-6018-6 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2021 |
Publisher: | HighBridge Company
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Book Format: | CD-Audio |
List Price: | USD $27.97 |
Book Description:
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At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London--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 and dockers of the city's seedier side--illuminate a fascinating time in history. Beautifully written and utterly moving, Call...
More DescriptionAt the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London--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 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, and everyone who has, a mother.