Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s - Jennifer Worth
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Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The EastEnd In The 1950s
Pages: 376, Paperback, Phoenix Last Update 26.11.2009 05:50
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Call The Midwife: A True Story of the EastEnd in the 1950s
Pages: 376, Edition: Reprint, Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Last Update 26.11.2009 05:50
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Pages: 370, Paperback, Phoenix Last Update 26.11.2009 05:50
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by - written on 10/01/09 (Very useful, 95 readings)
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My mother-in law kindly sent me this book up to read just before christmas, at first i was a little weary as from the cover it did look a little boring, but you know what they say-never judge a book by it's cover( sorry had to be done). Anyway i love to read anything that crosses my path weather it be a magazine or a novel. So one afternoon after putting the girls down for a nap i went upstairs and started on this book that had been sat staring at me for the last two days to read it. After reading the back cover i learned that it was a true story, based in the east end back in the 1950's and hence the title it is based around midwifery and was written by ... Read the complete review
by - written on 11/05/08 (Very useful, 121 readings)
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I've always been more interested in reading about the real lives of others than reading fiction so the book Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth caught my eye. It tells the story of the authors time spent as a midwife working from a convent in the East End of London in the 1950s. Through the book, Worth tells the stories of many of the women that she cared for in a warm and humorous manner. There are many heartwarming tales such as the premature birth of Conchita and Lens twenty-fifth baby and how a strong mothering instinct saved him and the friendship developed when a young lad teaches Chummy, an upper class nun, to ride a bicycle. There are also ... Read the complete review
by - written on 13/02/09 (Very useful, 70 readings)
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Review of 'Call the Midwife' by Jennifer Worth. **The Book** This book is true story of the life and work of a young midwife, Jennifer Worth. Jennifer worked in the East End of London in the 1950s, her patients were among the poorest, toughest members of the Dockland community. The second World War had left London ravaged and in parts derelict. Children had bombsites for their playgrounds and many homes that had been declared unfit for human occupation prior to the war, were still in use. Photographs within the book show just how badly some areas of London were affected. Families were crowded into condemned tenement buildings with no ... Read the complete review
by - written on 24/09/08 (Very useful, 63 readings)
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this book is amazing. having heard about it from a friend i was eager to read it. jennifer worth was a midwife in the 1950s and her stories of the ladies of east end London are heartwarming ones. the imaages are very graphic and sound appalling. the midwives having to ride their bicycles to labouring mothers are something we cannot imagine today. very few woman had hospital births- unless there were complications or the home was not fit. the norm was to give birth in the home. there was very little antenatal care. certainly no scans then!!! the women written about were amazing- the spanish lady who had 20+births and the story of her very premature baby was ... Read the complete review
by - written on 07/06/09 (Useful, 11 readings)
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This book tells the story of a trainee midwife in the 1950's docklands of London at Nonnatus House trained by Nuns. It is undoubtedly a brilliant book which makes an avid read however some of the graphic descriptions of the prositutes actions on Cable Street might make you think twice about giving this as a nostalgic gift to conservative aunts, mother in laws or grannies. Without doubt this book will make you think about how in such a short space of time (50 to 60 years) life on our island has changed. This is a period in time when hygiene and cleanliness were not abundant and tenement buildings with their primitive facilities were still about. But without ... Read the complete review
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