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| Title Statement | Call the midwife: a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times / Jennifer Worth ; clinical editor, Terri Coates, Terri Coates, MSc, RN, RM, ADM, Dip Ed. |
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| Author | Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011 |
| Additional Contributors | Coates, Terri |
| Publication | New York: Penguin Books,2012.©2002 |
| Edition | Revised edition. |
| Extent of Item | 340 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780143123255 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr00879942 |
| General Notes | "Published as The midwife by Penguin Books 2009"--Title page verso. "Now a PBS series!"--Cover. Originally published as Call the midwife: Merton Books, 2002. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 340). |
| Summary | 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. |
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| By Topic | Midwives--Biography--England--London |
| By Name | Worth, Jennifer,1935-2011 |
| By Location | London (England)--Social conditions--20th century |
| By Genre | Biographies |
