The Complete Call the Midwife Stories Jennifer Worth 4 Books Collection Collector's Gift-Edition (Shadows of the Workhouse, Farewell to the East End, Call the Midwife, Letters to the Midwife)

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John the Divine and many others like them to keep medical care going amidst heavy bombing, most of which was concentrated in the Docklands.

For example, there are an elderly nun who is somehow crazy, a mother who has given birth to over twenty three children, teenage sex workers, and rough and tough dock workers. I understand from her that it also features lots of background information about the real-life character and stories from which the TV series is adapted. On 13 April 2021 – five days before series 10 was due to start broadcasting on BBC One and with the 11th series about to begin filming – the BBC announced that two more series had been commissioned, keeping the show on air until 2024. It is the mark of a great author to convey, discuss, and opine exclusive of partiality highly complex topics such as the ones Jennifer deals with in the books.Every new birth was my favorite experience, just the joy, the thrill, the privilege of bringing a new life into the world. In October 2023, a group of academics suggested that the show should come with a health warning due to the depiction of 'inaccurate' birthing practices. Sister Monica Joan is exceedingly fascinating in the books, even more so than on the television show. Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and was later ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, then the Marie Curie Hospital, also in London.

As well as the name of the convent, names of the characters are generally pseudonymous, with the exception of Cynthia, who remained a close friend of Jennifer Worth's in later life. We are a team of very passionate book lovers dedicated to providing you with a wide variety of books for all interests.In an unimaginable twist, Florence Nightingale avails of the ear of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to help free Sister Monica Joan. Through the two Great Wars, people learnt never to plan ahead and constantly reduce their needs according to circumstances, but what no one planned for or anticipated was the insuperable attitude of the British. Worth wrote the book after retiring from a subsequent career as a musician, and it was originally published in July 2002. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour.

Filled with profound heart, charm, and self-deprecating humor, Being Henry is a memoir about so much more than a life in Hollywood and the curse of stardom. One part of me wondered if Jennifer could have spared us the horror, and another was grateful she didn’t. This book is filled with all sorts of heart-warming gems, readers' responses and personal histories. However, the series took on a life of its own and grew far beyond the original characters into ten episodes with eleven being in the offing and eight, hour long episodes each. The books paint a vivid picture of life in the East End, a kind of life most of us cannot even imagine: children playing in bombsites, crowded tenements with communal lavatories, large families with 13-15 children, laundry done by hand, brothels in abandoned buildings, loud costermongers deafening as one walks past, pubs full of casual labour in the evenings, sailors being nursed by nuns, nurses getting intimately involved, and hospitals being places of dread, not healing.Reissued in 2007, it became a bestseller, as did the sequel Shadows of the Workhouse (2005, reissued 2008) and the final volume Farewell to the East End (2009).

It provides a fascinating snapshot of social history, documenting the East End in the days when there was a real sense of community, when times were tough but there was plenty of good humour and neighbourly support to help the inhabitants through the harsh econonic climate. For the most part it depicts the day-to-day lives of the midwives and those in their local neighbourhood of Poplar, with certain historical events of the era having a direct or indirect effect on the characters and storylines. On 4 March 2019, the BBC announced it had commissioned two further series and Christmas specials, through to an eleventh series in 2022, moving the plot into the late-sixties.

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s.