The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

An unforgettable true story, The Midwife is the basis for the hit PBS drama Call the Midwife

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 04/07/2009
ISBN: 9780143116233
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/16/2009 pg. 121
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2009