Title: The midwife
Subtitle: a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times
Description: An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one extraordinary womanAt 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.
Subjects: Biography, Biography & Autobiography, History, Home Childbirth, Midwives, Nonfiction, Nurse Midwives, Personal narratives, Poverty Areas, Sociology, Women's Studies, Large type books, London (england), biography, Childbirth at home, Poverty
Places: England, London
People: Jennifer Worth (1935-)