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    Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
    Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
    Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
    Audiobook series3 titles

    Call the Midwife Series

    Written by Jennifer Worth

    Narrated by Nicola Barber

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    About this series

    Leaving a middle-class childhood to become a midwife in London#8217;s poor East End, Jennifer Worth not only delivered babies, she touched numerous lives and recounted with depth the heartrending story of a neighborhood in transition. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth#8217;s memoir trilogy, which the Times Literary Supplement described as #8220;powerful stories with sweet charm and controlled outrage#8221; in the face of dire circumstances.Here, at last, is the full story of Chummy#8217;s delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan#8217;mave, identical twins who share a browbeaten husband, and return to Sister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form. As in Worth#8217;s first two books, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times and Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse, the vividly portrayed denizens of a postwar East End contend with the trials of extreme poverty-unsanitary conditions, hunger, and disease-and find surprising ways to thrive in their tightly knit community.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateNov 7, 2017
    Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
    Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
    Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

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

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

      Jennifer Worth
      4/5 - 163 ratings
      4/5 - 163 ratings

      At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London#8217;s East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London-from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can#8217;t speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city#8217;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.

      At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London#8217;s East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London-from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can#8217;t speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city#8217;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.

    • 2

      Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
      Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse

      Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse

      Jennifer Worth
      5/5 - 63 ratings
      5/5 - 63 ratings

      When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood#8217;s most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century.Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humor of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds. This is an enduring work of literary nonfiction, at once a warmhearted coming-of-age story and a startling look at people#8217;s lives in the poorest section of postwar London.

      When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood#8217;s most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century.Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humor of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds. This is an enduring work of literary nonfiction, at once a warmhearted coming-of-age story and a startling look at people#8217;s lives in the poorest section of postwar London.

    • 3

      Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
      Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End

      Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End

      Jennifer Worth
      4/5 - 100 ratings
      4/5 - 100 ratings

      Leaving a middle-class childhood to become a midwife in London#8217;s poor East End, Jennifer Worth not only delivered babies, she touched numerous lives and recounted with depth the heartrending story of a neighborhood in transition. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth#8217;s memoir trilogy, which the Times Literary Supplement described as #8220;powerful stories with sweet charm and controlled outrage#8221; in the face of dire circumstances.Here, at last, is the full story of Chummy#8217;s delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan#8217;mave, identical twins who share a browbeaten husband, and return to Sister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form. As in Worth#8217;s first two books, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times and Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse, the vividly portrayed denizens of a postwar East End contend with the trials of extreme poverty-unsanitary conditions, hunger, and disease-and find surprising ways to thrive in their tightly knit community.

      Leaving a middle-class childhood to become a midwife in London#8217;s poor East End, Jennifer Worth not only delivered babies, she touched numerous lives and recounted with depth the heartrending story of a neighborhood in transition. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth#8217;s memoir trilogy, which the Times Literary Supplement described as #8220;powerful stories with sweet charm and controlled outrage#8221; in the face of dire circumstances.Here, at last, is the full story of Chummy#8217;s delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan#8217;mave, identical twins who share a browbeaten husband, and return to Sister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form. As in Worth#8217;s first two books, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times and Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse, the vividly portrayed denizens of a postwar East End contend with the trials of extreme poverty-unsanitary conditions, hunger, and disease-and find surprising ways to thrive in their tightly knit community.

    Author

    Jennifer Worth

    Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berk-shire Hospital in Reading, and was later ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, then the Marie Curie Hospital, also in London. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to study music intensively, teaching piano and singing for about twenty-five years. Jennifer died in May 2011 after a short illness, leaving her husband, Philip; two daughters; and three grandchildren. Her books have all been bestsellers in England.

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