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Call the Midwife

A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

By Jennifer Worth

By Jennifer Worth

By Jennifer Worth

By Jennifer Worth

By Jennifer Worth

By Jennifer Worth

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Part of The Midwife Trilogy

Part of The Midwife Trilogy

Part of The Midwife Trilogy

Paperback $16.00

Aug 29, 2012 | ISBN 9780143123255

Paperback $17.00

Apr 07, 2009 | ISBN 9780143116233

Ebook $11.99

Aug 29, 2012 | ISBN 9781101614402

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    About Call the Midwife

    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.

    About Call the Midwife

    An unforgettable true story, The Midwife is the basis for the hit PBS drama Call the Midwife

    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, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother.

    About Call the Midwife

    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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    About Jennifer Worth

    Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, England. 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… More about Jennifer Worth

    About Jennifer Worth

    Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, England. 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… More about Jennifer Worth

    About Jennifer Worth

    Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, England. 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… More about Jennifer Worth

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Aug 29, 2012 | 352 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780143123255

    Category: Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Apr 07, 2009 | 352 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780143116233

    Category: Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Aug 29, 2012 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9781101614402

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    Praise

    “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

    Awards

    Mothers Naturally Award WINNER

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