Call the midwife trilogy
Author
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies--from the plucky, warmhearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children, to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side--illuminate a fascinating time in history.
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The three books of this trilogy chronicle Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House. It provides a fascinating snapshot of social history, documenting the East End in the days when there was a real sense of community, when times were tough but there was plenty of good humour and neighbourly...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ecco/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Here, in the final book of the Call the Midwife trilogy, is the full story of Chummy's delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan'mave, identical twins who share a...