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Digital audiobook narrated by Nicola Barber.
Originally titled: The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times . This was renamed to coincide with the popular television series. And in case you haven’t seen the TV show, the subtitle is really all the synopsis you need.
Worth was a 22-year-old young woman, with no particular religious affiliation, who found herself assigned to Nonnatus House, a convent, for her training as a midwife. She got an excellent education, more practical experienc ...more
Originally titled: The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times . This was renamed to coincide with the popular television series. And in case you haven’t seen the TV show, the subtitle is really all the synopsis you need.
Worth was a 22-year-old young woman, with no particular religious affiliation, who found herself assigned to Nonnatus House, a convent, for her training as a midwife. She got an excellent education, more practical experienc ...more
I loved this PBS series and I have wanted to read the book for a while now.
Taking place in the 1950's in the East End of London, it is the memoir of a young nurse, who has decided that being a midwife is her calling, She is trained in a convent by the Sisters of Nonnatus House. the Catholic religion being a new experience for her. Through out the author explores Catholicism, much more than the TV series did.
Jennifer Worth also includes much more medical background/history of birth, than the se ...more
Taking place in the 1950's in the East End of London, it is the memoir of a young nurse, who has decided that being a midwife is her calling, She is trained in a convent by the Sisters of Nonnatus House. the Catholic religion being a new experience for her. Through out the author explores Catholicism, much more than the TV series did.
Jennifer Worth also includes much more medical background/history of birth, than the se ...more
Apr 22, 2017
Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Jenn Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Schu
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I've watched the televised series for a number of years and have always enjoyed. The book as well as the series is quite interesting as it evaluates women's health practices and the social conditions of the mid twentieth century in England. The characters are colorful as is the relations between the different characters. I love the language of the book from the eloquent speakers to the rhythmical cockney dialect and was quite pleased that the afterword included a bit on the cockney dialect. All
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