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Author
Series
Call the midwife volume 2
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The Call the midwife trilogy is comprised of Call the midwife (not included here, c2002), Shadows of the workhouse (this book, c2005), and Farewell to the East End (not included here, c2009). Together, this series chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House. It provides a fascinating...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The final installment in the three-volume work that chronicles the author's life as a midwife in London's East End offers portraits of how the city's poorest citizens were able to thrive in their tightly knit community.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Phoenix
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Worth was just 22 years old when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. These stories encompass the whole spectrum of human emotions, and candidly reveal the shocking truth of childbirth conditions just 50 years ago.