The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard TimesAn 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 04/07/2009
ISBN: 9780143116233
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/16/2009 pg. 121
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2009