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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It is a fascinating book. It shows life as it really was .. Makes you glad you weren’t there.BUT I COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN. I highly recommend it
Always good character followup and enjoyable reading!
I did not know the fact midwives were the main source of health care for pregnant women after WW II in Europe. Very easy to read. Informative.
It seemed to be just a series of events…not really a story.
Loved this book!
I loved this book as much as I love the show. I have watched some of the episodes over and over and I’m reading and rereading chapters in the book the same way, The characters are wonderful and it’s so much fun to see the Nuns and the nurses working together even though they don’t always see eye to eye. The era is exciting and nostalgic as well as sad and heartbreaking.
Call the Midwife shares personal thoughts and insights of a 50 Year career of the author. Though it started too slow for me, the book’s content soon became a page-turner. What experiences she had while helping women give birth – and more – in an area of London! Recommend this read!
Loved the TV series, love the book!
Call the Midwife was a book that revealed unbelievable conditions along the London docks during the middle of the 20th century. It takes you into the homes and lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. It is easy to read and hard to put down.
I enjoyed this book very much. It was very interesting. This book brings to life the characters and the lifestyle of those living in the East End during the 50s. Beware of realistic description of a prostitute working in a bar, especially if you allow a juvenile to read this book.
Loved it!
well worth the read. Sort of like All Creatures Great and Small but with midwives instead of veterinarians 🙂
Excellent! I have gotten the other two books that follow this to read also.
Wonderful journal of life & midwifery evolution following WW II in Great Britain. Tremendous read
Much more “gritty” than the television series, but many episodes were taken pretty directly from the book too.
Great book that explores London post WWII. Deals with so many ‘modern’ Issues:poverty, race, class/caste, role of women, dealing with a changing work market, religion, love, marriage and, of course, babies. Amazing how far the world has come since the early 1900s. Wonderful to see a view of society from a commoner, instead of the noble born.
The TV version of Call The Midwife is an amazing show. I am usually in tears by the end. The book is another story. I could not get past the first chapter. Very dis-appointing.
As delightful “as seen on TV!” Where are books 2 & 3?
Loved this personal account of the life of a midwife delivering babies for the poor in England in the 1950s. Facinating.
Tells the story of a midwife in 1950’s England. How they worked and what they had to work with.