by Jennifer Worth · W&N · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753825853
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«Shadows of the Workhouse» is Jennifer Worth's memoir, published by W&N in paperback (304 pages, in English).
The author, a midwife in London's East End in the 1950s, portrays the lives of people marked by the workhouse: Jane, broken by cruelty until she finds affection; Peggy and Frank, siblings separated after their parents' death; and Sister Monica Joan, accused of stealing jewels. A chronicle of poverty and resilience in postwar London.
Second part of The Midwife Trilogy, the memoir trilogy that inspired the television series «Call the Midwife».
For readers of memoirs and British social history and for those who discovered the East End through the television series «Call the Midwife».
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.
