Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

Type

Book

Authors

Jennifer Worth

ISBN 10

0753827875

ISBN 13

9780753827871

Tags

Memoirs, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Women's Health, Obstetrics & Gynecology

Description

The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey 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. Based on Jennifer Worth's bestselling memoirs, Call the Midwife is the true story behind the beloved PBS series. - from Amzon

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