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Call the Midwife (Midwife Trilogy, Bk 1)
Call the Midwife - Midwife Trilogy, Bk 1
Author: Jennifer Worth
Life in London’s docklands in the 1950s was tough. The brothels of Cable Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bombsites -- this was the world that Jennifer Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of twenty-two. Babies were born in slum conditions, often with no running water. — Jennifer Worth desc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780753823835
ISBN-10: 0753823837
Publication Date: 1/1/2008
Pages: 376
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4.5 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Phoenix
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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This is a very wonderful book. Its just amazing to read all the things the midwives did in the 50's.
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This book was very eye opening to how midwifery was in the 1950's post wartime. The writer portrayed her emotional as well as spiritual self throughout the story.
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