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Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times

Worth, Jennifer 1935-2011 (Author). Coates, Terri. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780143123255
  • Physical Description: print
    340 pages (paperback) ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2012.
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    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 2 / 5.0

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 340).
Subject: Worth, Jennifer 1935-2011
Midwives England London Biography
Worth, Jennifer 1935-2011
Nurse Midwives England London Personal Narratives
Home Childbirth history England London
Childbirth History
Poverty Areas England London

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at Lackawanna County Library System.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Abington Community Library 92 WORTH (Text) 50687011201913 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library 92 WORTH (Text) 50686014403096 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Valley Community Library 92 WORTH (Text) 50690011061147 Adult Nonfiction Available -

Summary: 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.
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