Farewell To The East End - Jennifer Worth

I am interested in social history and, as a mother, the job of midwives fascinates me. Combining these two subjects, ''Farewell to the East End'' is a riveting read. The author Jennifer Worth was a midwife and nurse, working with the nuns at Nonnatus House in the East End of London and this volume (her third book on this topic) covers the 1950s. This was a time before the contraceptive pill, when the Sisters delivered around a hundred babies a month. It was a period of readjustment after World War II, when houses were still destroyed from the bombs and many families were living in poverty and squalid conditions. The nuns were there to help the poor, seeing ...  Read the complete review

"Farewell To The East End" is the final book in Jennifer Worth's series recounting her experiences as a midwife and nurse based at a convent called Nonnatus House in post war London. The first book "Call The Midwife" was a five star book, the second book "Tales of the Workhouse" a four star book but the third only gets a measly three stars from me. Farewell To The East End is not nearly as compelling reading as the first two books in the series. The first part of the book concentrates on various different stories about patients that the nurses treated. True, the stories are fairly interesting such as how a midwife delivered ...  Read the complete review