Summary
Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying. Full description
Series: Call the midwife trilogy
Call the midwife: a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times (Volume 1.)
Shadows of the workhouse (Volume 2.)
Farewell to the East End (Volume 3.)