by Jennifer Worth · Phoenix · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753827871
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«Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s» is the autobiography of Jennifer Worth (Phoenix, paperback, 368 pages, in English).
It tells how Jennifer Worth, a young woman from a comfortable background, arrives in the East End of London in the 1950s to work as a midwife. She discovers a reality of poverty, prostitution and births in extreme conditions, but also the help of an order of nuns, camaraderie and the humour of a resilient community.
First instalment of The Midwife Trilogy, originally published in 2002.
A read for those interested in postwar memoirs, social history and the work of midwives in 1950s London.
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM was a British memoirist, nurse, and midwife. She worked in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s, where she gained much of her experience that would later shape her writing. Drawing on these experiences, she wrote a best-selling trilogy: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009). After leaving her career in nursing, Worth re-trained as a musician.
