Book three of the Call the Midwife series, lovely finale on her tales of the East End. Really enjoyed this series, although I think the first book was the best.
I read this book because I absolutely love the PBS miniseries. Obviously there weren't any surprises in it because I had seen the show already, but I love the characters and learning about that time period. This book made me cry many times. The only reason I didn't give it a five is because she w...
In the second book of the Midwife trilogy, Jennifer Worth gives us a more detailed look at some of her characters. We find out how truly terrible the workhouses were through Jane, her friend Peggy and Peggy’s older brother Frank. Sister Monica Joan is accused of a humiliating crime but claims t...
. Stark examples of maternal health care in the East End slums of Britain during the 1950’s. A TV series, far more light-hearted than the books, has been made of Worth’s accounts. Extremely readable and often horrifying, especially the death of a young woman from eclampsia and the descriptions of...
This one is less of a recollection of her memories. It has some of her stories, but there are many thoughts on how one dies now, and how one used to die. Her point is in the old days you used to die at home, in peace with minimal suffering, whereas now we keep everyone alive at all costs- regardl...
I downgraded my initial rating from 5 to 4 stars, since I feel each book in the trilogy deserves its own rating. 5 stars for"Call the Midwife" is the first of these three volumes of memoir by Worth that inspired the BBC/PBS series of the same name. The TV series does a great job of capturing the ...
I first heard about Call the Midwife from TV. Since we enjoyed the series, I thought I'd get the books. The books stand on their own, and if you watch the series and read the books, you will see several different characters from the books are rolled into one for the show.At times, the books are m...
It was so exciting to hear some of these stories about having children in the 1950's. I was so surprised to find that prenatal care has not changed that much in over half a century. I listened to this book on tape while nursing my newborn baby twins and could identify with the many of the stori...
They must have spent their time in the womb grumbling to each other about cramped living conditions, a damp environment, too dark, smelly, and wet. And when they emerged into the world kicking and screaming they would have started to complain about too much light, noise, fuss and bustle. Their co...
Where the hell have you been hiding all this time? We haven’t heard from you in months. I had to get on to your mother to find out where you were. She said you are a midwife in a convent. I had to tell her, gently, that nuns don’t do it, so she must be wrong, but she wouldn’t listen. What? You ar...