Jennifer Worth
4 Books midwife trilogy
set series collection. Must read all 4 series books set collection Farewell to
the East End, Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and In the Midst of
Life by Jennifer Worth.
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Description
Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from
a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest
section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and
touched many lives; she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler.
Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth's memoir
trilogy, which the Times Literary Supplement described as "powerful
stories with sweet charm and controlled outrage" in the face of dire
circumstances.
Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in The 1950s
Fans of Down ton Abbey and Mad Men have fallen
in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s,
twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a
convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering
babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women—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 of the city's seedier
side.
Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London
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.
In the Midst of Life
Now, in IN THE MIDST OF LIFE she documents her
experiences as a nurse and ward sister, treating patients who were nearing the
end of their lives. Interspersed with these stories from Jennifer's
post-midwife career are the histories of her patients, from the family divided
by a decision nobody could bear to make, to the mother who comes to her son's
adopted country and joins his family without being able to speak a word of
English
