| The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times Contributor(s): Worth, Jennifer (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143116231 ISBN-13: 9780143116233 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: "The Midwife" tells the inspiring story of Jennifer Worth--a 22-year-old woman who leaves her comfortable home, moves into a convent, and becomes a midwife in post-war London's East End slums. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Medical | Allied Health Services - General - Health & Fitness | Pregnancy & Childbirth |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008054663 |
| Series: Midwife Trilogy |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An unforgettable true story, The Midwife is the basis for the hit PBS drama Call the Midwife 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'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'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, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother. |