Title: Call the Midwife Pdf A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Audie Award Nominee, Solo Narration - Female, 2013
At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London's East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn'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, Call the Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother.
Beautifully Written- Just as Delightful as the TV Series!! Most reviewers seem to think that it is their job to outline the plot of the book that they are reviewing. I'm not going to do that. What I am going to do is tell you that I am an avid reader. I am 69 years old and I read about 3 books a week. Sometimes more. I have now read all three of Jennifer Worth's books and I have found all of them to be outstanding! If you're like me, you will learn an incredible amount about Post-War life in the lower East side of London. I had no idea that such abject poverty existed there during my lifetime. When I was little, whenever the bills came in, my father would always moan, "Off to the poor house!" I had not a clue that there really were such things, nor could I have imagined the horrors that they held within. Worth writes eloquently about life before the Pill, the Polio vaccine, and indoor plumbing. All things that we take for granted.I can't imagine a novel being any more captivating than these memoirs. The characters all come alive--they literally seem to leap off the pages and you can almost smell the streets of the lower East side as the midwives furiously pedal to assist their next mother-to be. I think what amazed me the most was the quality of the writing. Often memoirs are ghost-written, or they are interesting but the writing is amateurish. In this case, the author is one of the midwives and I have to say that her writing is as good as any accomplished author. Her stories are mesmerizing, heart-wrenching, at times humorous, but always beautifully written. Jennifer Worth died recently and I am so sorry that I never had the chance to write to her and tell her how much I loved her books.Fascinating memoir of life as a midwife This was a choice for our book club. We all agreed this was a significant book. Jennifer Worth was a trained midwife in England, and writes of people she knew, and her experiences, using pseudonyms.. She includes details that inform the reader about the history of this profession, life in the workhouse, and the nursing professionals convent where she lived. This is a memoir of actual experiences, so the character sketches are even more fascinating. It is not a novel, but short stories of specific people or situations. Humor, candor, and history make this a most enjoyable read. It is not for the faint of heart as there are graphic descriptions of medical situations. This is the first of 3 volumes of Call the Midwife. A PBS series is based on her books.A heartwarming, fascinating book! If you enjoy the television series based on this book, you must read the source material. If you haven't watched the series, I still recommend this for its humanity and insight. Some of the characters are a bit rougher around the edges here than their TV counterparts, and some situations end a bit differently than in the series, but on the whole, the book is a wonderful look at a way of life that is long past. The way people lived in this area of London seems absolutely primitive to us today, yet the crowded homes with few amenities, and families with half a dozen or more children were routine. Take a step back in time and see what being a midwife in post-WW II England was like!
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