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The midwife: a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times

By Terri , Worth , Jennifer; Worth , Jennifer; Coates

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Group;Phoenix
Year
2009
ISBN
9781101105771, 1101105771, 9781101105573, 1101105577, 9781101105726, 1101105720
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
593 kB (606951 bytes)
Pages
340 pages; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:57
Nonfiction;Autobiography;Memoir;History;Biography;

Description

An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one extraordinary womanAt the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London-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 and dockers of the city's seedier side-illuminate a fascinating time in history. Beautifully written and utterly moving, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother.

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