The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times -- Jennifer Worth

<b>An unforgettable true story, <i>The Midwife</i> is the basis for the hit PBS drama <i>Call the Midwife</i></b> <p/>At 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, <i>The Midwife</i> will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Jennifer Worth<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 04/07/2009<br><b>Pages:</b> 352<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.60lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780143116233<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 02/16/2009 pg. 121<br><i>Kirkus Reviews</i> 02/15/2009<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. She then moved to London to train as a midwife. She later became a staff nurse at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, and then ward sister and sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Euston. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 Jennifer left nursing in order to study musi