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Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hrs., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The final chapter in the memoir trilogy set in London's East End after WWII, the basis for the hit BBC series. Here is the story of Chummy's courtship and wedding; identical twins Megan'mave, who share a browbeaten husband; and a return toSister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form.
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The three books of this trilogy chronicle Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House. It provides a fascinating snapshot of social history, documenting the East End in the days when there was a real sense of community, when times were tough but there was plenty of good humour and neighbourly...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ecco/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Here, in the final book of the Call the Midwife trilogy, is the full story of Chummy's delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan'mave, identical twins who share a...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Reflects on the experiences of Jennifer Worth as a midwife in London's postwar East End, including the nuns from whom she learned her craft and the interesting and challenging births she aided during her career.
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