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0062270060 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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'compelling' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'we are introduced to a host of colourful East End characters and the heartrending tragedies that befell so many of them... a great read' FAMILY HISTORY MONTHLY 'a fascinating and valuable insight into the cultural history of an area and people that is now barely recognisable... uncompromising and gripping... life affirming.' NURSING STANDARD
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About the Author
Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berk-shire Hospital in Reading, and was later ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, then the Marie Curie Hospital, also in London. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to study music intensively, teaching piano and singing for about twenty-five years. Jennifer died in May 2011 after a short illness, leaving her husband, Philip; two daughters; and three grandchildren. Her books have all been bestsellers in England.
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- Series: Call the Midwife (Book 3)
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Ecco; Reprint edition (March 12, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062270060
- ISBN-13: 978-0062270061
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
London's East End as midwife Jennifer Lee knew it no longer exists, thanks to social engineering and urban renewal policies that condemned the tenements and relocated the families who had called the East End home for generations. The Sisters of St. Raymond Nonnatus, an Anglican convent dedicated to nursing and midwifery, found themselves no longer needed as the population they had served for so long went elsewhere - however unwillingly - and then "the pill" made it possible for women to control their fertility, at last. The birth rate dropped dramatically, and the sisters withdrew to their mother house and found new ways to serve. But during the last years of the East End, Nonnatus House was still there; and so were its young midwives, nurses who came there to be trained and who sometimes stayed to fulfill a religious vocation. While others, young women like Jenny Lee, moved on to other stages of their lives and careers - and some, like Chummy (familiar to readers of the trilogy's first two books, as well as to viewers of the PBS series), moved on to fulfill their religious callings elsewhere.
This third and final installment in Jennifer Lee Worth's memoirs is darker than the first two, as a way of life moves toward its close. It's also more factual, with a chapter telling a family's story (usually a tragic one) followed by a chapter-length essay about the medical/social problem involved. I found this less engaging and enjoyable than the author's storytelling in the first two books, but it is effective in its own way; and it does seem to be well researched. Toward the book's end, Chummy takes center stage with her delightful romance and fulfillment of a destiny quite different from what her aristocratic family intended.
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