The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only deli[...]

Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying.[...]

When the CALL THE MIDWIFE books became bestsellers, Jennifer Worth was inundated with correspondence. People felt moved to write to her because the books had touched them, and because they wanted to share memories of the world her books described, the East End of London in the late 1940s and early 1[...]

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to e[...]

Jennifer Worth's bestselling memoirs of her time as a midwife have inspired and moved readers of all ages. Now, in IN THE MIDST OF LIFE she documents her experiences as a nurse and ward sister, treating patients who were nearing the end of their lives. Interspersed with these stories from Jennifer's[...]

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to e[...]

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 tw[...]

Leaving a middle-class childhood to become a midwife in London's poor East End, Jennifer Worth not only delivered babies, she touched numerous lives and recounted with depth the heartrending story of a neighborhood in transition. "Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End" is the last book in Worth[...]

In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was alle[...]

Livet på Londons østkant i 1950-årene var tøft. Lutfattige familier, kriminalitet, gjengkonflikter, bordeller, alkoholikere og bombekratre - dette var virkeligheten som møtte Jennifer Worth da hun begynte som jordmor, 22 år gammel. Barn ble født i slummen, og ofte hadde familiene ikke engang [...]

Barnmorskan i East End är en underbart rolig, hjärtevärmande och gripande skildring från efterkrigstidens London, som ligger till grund för den hyllade BBC-serien som SVT visar nu i sommar. Som ung nyutexaminerad barnmorska kom Jennifer Worth på 1950-talet till ett nunnekloster i Docklands i [...]

Barnmorskan i East End är en underbart rolig, hjärtevärmande och gripande skildring från efterkrigstidens London, som ligger till grund för den hyllade BBC-serien som SVT visar del två av nu i sommar.





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