Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

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Издателство: Phoenix
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 125
Височина (мм): 195
Дебелина (мм): 23
Корици: Меки

Life in London's docklands in the 1950s was tough.

The brothels of Cable Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bombsites - this was the world that Jennifer Worth entered when she became
a midwife at the age of twenty-two. Babies were born in slum conditions, often with no running water.

Jennifer Worth describes the romance and beauty of the great port of London, the bug-infested tenements, the spectre of disease, the sense of community and the incredible resilience of women who bore more than ten children. Funny, disturbing and moving, Call the Midwife brings to life a world that has now changed beyond measure.

'I loved the people, the nuns, the tough dockers, the prostitutes and pimps, seen with the fresh eyes of youth'
Guardian

'Gripping, moving ... a powerful evocation of a long-gone world ... and in Worth it has surely found one of its best chroniclers'
Literary Review