“Jennifer Worth’s memories of her years as a midwife were at once hilarious and tremendously moving.” -Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
“Worth is indeed a natural storyteller. . . . Her detailed account of being a midwife in London’s East End is gripping, moving, and convincing from beginning to end.” –Literary Review
“I loved the people, the nuns, the tough dockers, the prostitutes and pimps, seen with the fresh eyes of youth.” –The Guardian
“Readers will fall in love with Call the Midwife . . . an affirmation of life during the best and worst of times.” -Elizabeth Brundage, author of The Doctor’s Wife