Cover image for Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times / Jennifer Worth ; clinical editor, Terri Coates.
TITLE:
Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times / Jennifer Worth ; clinical editor, Terri Coates.
Former Title:
Midwife
Publication Date:
2012, 2002
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books,
Volume:
[v. 1]
Physical Description:
340 p.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 340).
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780143123255
General Note:
"Previously published as The midwife."