Read Shadows Of The Workhouse (2008)

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Author

Jennifer Worth

Genre

Memoir & Autobiography

Series

The Midwife Trilogy

Rating

4.1 of 5 Votes: 1

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ISBN

0297853260 (ISBN13: 9780297853268)

Language

English

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Shops

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Shadows Of The Workhouse (2008) - Plot & Excerpts

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 to be innocent. One of the Sisters decides that two lonely and shy people were just made for each other, and engineers some well thought-out matchmaking. And through it all, the nurses experience life at its best and worst. This was not what I was expecting from the series - not much midwifery if any - but still another very good read and interesting, though also incredibly sad. Life in Popular and in a workhouse in those times is fascinating to read about. I especially enjoyed the last section about Mr. Collett, with his stories of the British Army at the turn of the 19th century and of his family and life in London at that time.