The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London’s East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of … encounters a colorful cast of women—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 of the city’s seedier side.
An unfortgettable story of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the strength of remarkable and inspiring women, Call the Midwife is the true story behind the beloved PBS series, which will soon return for its sixth season.
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Wonder characters, both midwives and patients. After watch PBS Call the
Midwife, this book is just a reminder of all the wonderful stories. Well written and so descriptive in all situations. This is a book that will be re-read many times by me.
Midwifery is not very common in this country so the book was full of interesting stories and characters. Also this was about England right after WW II so it carried a lot of interesting history from my point of view