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Call the Midwife
Call the Midwife
Author: Jennifer Worth
Life in London's docklands in the 1950s was tough. The brothels of Cable Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bombsites - this was the world that Jennifer Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of twenty-two. Babies were born in slum conditions, often with no running water. Jennifer Worth describes th...  more »
ISBN: 272758
Publication Date: 1/1/2008
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Publisher: Phoenix
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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This is a very wonderful book. Its just amazing to read all the things the midwives did in the 50's.
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This book was very eye opening to how midwifery was in the 1950's post wartime. The writer portrayed her emotional as well as spiritual self throughout the story.
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