Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

Summary

Jennifer Worth’s account of her experiences as a midwife in 1950s is a fascinating slice of social history.

At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with twenty-four children who couldn’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, Call the Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is a mother and everyone who has a mother.