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Call The Midwife - A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s (Paperback)
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Call The Midwife - A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s (Paperback)
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List price R310
Loot Price R137
Discovery Miles 1 370
You Save R173 (56%)
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Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a
major BBC TV series. Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered
background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s.
The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century
ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished
surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to
endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she
also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a
great deal of Cockney humour. She also earned the confidences of
some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more
terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction. Attached to an
order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 1870s,
Jennifer tells the story not only of the women she treated, but
also of the community of nuns (including one who was accused of
stealing jewels from Hatton Garden) and the camaraderie of the
midwives with whom she trained. Funny, disturbing and incredibly
moving, Jennifer's stories bring to life the colourful world of the
East End in the 1950s.
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