wont want to put it down (Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s - Jennifer Worth)

Member Name: maisymoo

Product:	Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s - Jennifer Worth
Date:	24/09/08 (63 review reads)
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Advantages: fabulous book all round

Disadvantages: next book now please!!!!

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 beyond belief. and Mary the young 15year old whose baby was taken away from her without her consent was shocking. it made me cry. i wish we had known what happenned to her afterwards. the grim description of the children back then was at times horrific- the 2 little boys wearing just clothes on their top halves so that mum didnt have to bother washing them when they went to the toilet.

this book was one of those i didnt want to put down but didnt want to finsh either. just fantastic. will equally appeal to mums and non mums!!! i cannot wait for her next book.

Summary: fantastic read.