Cette trilogie évoque avec tendresse la vie d'une sage-femme à travers une série de mémoires. Suivez ses expériences dans l'East End de Londres dans les années 1950, alors qu'elle rencontre divers personnages et navigue à travers de profondes histoires humaines. C'est un récit poignant sur la vie, la mort et la force de la communauté qui capture l'esprit d'une époque.
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 bombsites - this was the world Jennifer Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of twenty-two.
In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in the Docklands of East London where the aftermath of the war meant many lived in shocking conditions. She worked with the Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine, nurses and midwives whose vocation was to work amongst the poorest of the poor. Despite the official closure of the workhouses in 1930, there was nowhere else for many inmates to go so they changed their names and carried on much as before. In 'Shadows of the Workhouse', Jennifer tells the stories of the men and women she met who began their lives in the workhouse.
Farewell To the East End: the Last Days of the East End Midwives