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Call The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

Jennifer Worth
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At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history. Beautifully written and utterly moving, Call the Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother. Publisher's Summary
Genres: NonfictionMemoirHistoryBiographyBook ClubHistoricalAudiobookBiography MemoirAutobiographyBritish Literature
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