The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir
and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable
middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst
section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of
babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's
most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in
the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew
up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped
on into the middle of the twentieth century.
Orphaned brother and sister Peggy and Frank lived in the
workhouse until Frank got free and returned to rescue his sister.
Bubbly Jane's spirit was broken by the cruelty of the workhouse
master until she found kindness and romance years later at Nonnatus
House. Mr. Collett, a Boer War veteran, lost his family in the two
world wars and died in the workhouse.
Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines
through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the
strength, courage, and humor of people determined to build a future
for themselves against the odds. This is an enduring work of
literary nonfiction, at once a warmhearted coming-of-age story and
a startling look at people's lives in the poorest section of
postwar London.
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