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Call The Midwife

A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

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Call The Midwife

By: Jennifer Worth
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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 In this extraordinary account of life as midwife in 1950s London, Jennifer Worth recounts her experiences - and those of the women she helped - in all their stark, colourful and at times shocking reality.

Life in London's East End in the 1950s was tough. The brothels of Cable Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bomb sites - this was the world that Jennifer Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of twenty-two. Babies were born in slum conditions, often with no running water.

In Call the Midwife, Worth describes the romance and beauty of London as well as the bug-infested tenements, the spectre of disease, the sense of community and the incredible resilience of women who often bore more than ten children. Funny and moving, it brings to life a world that has now changed beyond measure.©2007 Jennifer Worth Medical Professionals & Academics Funny Midwife
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A great listen and a nice voiced actor. The tales of these wonderful women, both midwife and mother is beautiful and humbling. Really puts life into perspective. I adore them all the more that they were really people doing real work. Midwifery is so important and I love to hear tales of its growth and respectability.

Beautiful and Humbling

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A young midwife's service to the impoverished and discovery that we are blessed when and through whom we least expect. Her journey to finding God and his almighty love.

Unveiling of extraordinary lives of service

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I don't know what to write. just a great book and to think the practices described in this book only happened a mere 60 years ago in my mother's time.

great read

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What a tale. Heart wrenching and hilarious. The narration was spot on. The accents hahaha so good.

Marvellous

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I love the TV series, but the book gives Jennifer's thoughts that are not always narrated, which adds an extra something to the narrative.

There were also stories that had to be adapted for the screen that were horrible to think about. For instance, Cable Street, and all the misery and crime that it enabled. I could smell the stench of the rotting rubbish and human waste.

I felt outraged by the bureaucratic stupidity and hope that this couldn't happen in these times. So much suffering could have been nipped in the bud, but the poorest of poor obviously didn't have a voice or clout in the various levels of government.

Juliet's narration was pretty well spot on.

I will definitely be getting the rest of the series.

Better than the TV series?

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