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Title Statement | Call the midwife: a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times. |
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Series | Midwife Trilogy ;1 |
Author | Worth, Jennifer |
Publication | Canada: Penguin Random House Canada,2012. |
Edition | ON ORDER |
Extent of Item | 340 pages. |
ISBN | 9780143123255 |
Other Number | pr00879942 |
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 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women | |
HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth | |
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General | |
MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics | |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies |