Call the Midwife Call the Midwife, Volume 3: Farewell to the East End, Book 03, (Paperback)

from michigantrumpet

The third of Jennifer Worth's memoirs of her times as a nurse/midwife in London's 1950's East End.. Her books have been the basis of the wildly popular series "Call the Midwife." Her very personal stories about her friends and their patients are interspersed with discourses on poverty, birth cont...

from debnance

This was a book club read and I must admit I didn't go eagerly into reading it, as I'm not one who tends to read books that have been made into tv shows (I'm just weird that way). I only read one or two of the stories, however, and I was hooked. Yes, some of it reads like filler, but it is book t...

from RubyScarlett

This is a less linear account of Jennifer's days as a midwife but the book is full of anecdotes about various people she describes so well I was interested in all of them. I particularly loved the end where she explains what happened to everyone and ultimately to Poplar. I thoroughly enjoyed her ...

from bertonex19

Being quite interested in the days gone by... i stumbled across this book a while ago by chance, the book itself contains the memoirs of a young midwife. The book was wonderful and easy to read probably because it feels a little like a diary of events. The book is ideal to pick up and put down as...

from Erin.Patel

Love these books by Jennifer Worth. This one was one of the best as it wraps up her time at Nonnatus house (a convent which provides widwifery services to the poorest of the poor in the east end London). Such horrifying and beautifully written stories. Makes me feel very lucky to be living in a t...