Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times
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Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011.
Published
New York : Penguin Group USA, 2012.
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340 pages ; 21 cm.
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
618.20233 W932 PBK
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Childbirth -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Midwives -- England -- London -- Biography.
Worth, Jennifer, -- 1935-2011.

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Published
New York : Penguin Group USA, 2012.
Format
Book
Language
English

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"Previously published as The midwife"--Cover.
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Jennifer Worth was just 22 years old when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. These stories encompass the whole spectrum of human emotions, and candidly reveal the shocking truth of childbirth conditions just 50 years ago.

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