Call the midwife : a true story of the East End in the 1950s
- 376pages
- 14 heures de lecture
A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London.
Le Monde des Accoucheuses Séries
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.
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Call the midwife : a true story of the East End in the 1950s
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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.
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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.
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Farewell To The East End
- 321pages
- 12 heures de lecture
The third and final book in the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE trilogy, now a major BBC TV series starring Miranda Hart and Jessica Raine. The hit BBC TV series CALL THE MIDWIFE is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, chronicling her life as a midwife in London in the 1950s. FAREWELL TO THE EAST END is the third book in the trilogy. Following on from the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE and SHADOWS OF THE WORKHOUSE, Jennifer brings her story to a conclusion. Post-war life could be a struggle - the devastating effects of TB, dangerous backstreet abortions, people driven to extremes by poverty - but there was also warmth and humour. Like Megan'mave, the identical twins who share the same browbeaten husband; the eccentric Sister Monica Joan; and gauche debutante Chummy, who wants to be a missionary. FAREWELL TO THE EAST END shines a light on the lives, culture and stories of a bygone era, and is both moving and heartwarming in equal measure.
