num_pages: 340
description: 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 The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is and everyone who has a mother.
language: English
title: The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
publisher: Penguin Group