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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.]]> 527872 4.03 231 82 2002 5 1 false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 17:01:13 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 17:02:02 -0700 2009 more...]]>