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'compelling' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'we are introduced to a host of colourful East End characters and the heartrending tragedies that befell so many of them... a great read' FAMILY HISTORY MONTHLY 'a fascinating and valuable insight into the cultural history of an area and people that is now barely recognisable... uncompromising and gripping... life affirming.' NURSING STANDARD
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Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berk-shire Hospital in Reading, and was later ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, then the Marie Curie Hospital, also in London. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to study music intensively, teaching piano and singing for about twenty-five years. Jennifer died in May 2011 after a short illness, leaving her husband, Philip; two daughters; and three grandchildren. Her books have all been bestsellers in England.
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful
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on September 26, 2012
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This memoir, much like the first in this trilogy, includes midwife and nurse's stories from London's East End. Many of the stories in this volume are arranged to highlight certain health issues of the day (twins/triplets, infanticide, tuberculosis, abortion), and include accompanying statistics and historical information. It is also worth noting that some of the stories included are of a bit more seedy nature than those included in the first two volumes, but I felt they were tastefully presented and the people therein were depicted with dignity. Happily, the last few chapters let you know what happened to all the nurses and nuns that you have come to know throughout the three volumes in this series. Wonderful series!
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Carolyn Rollings
on October 6, 2012
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This book follows on from the first one 'Call the Midwife' and is just as fascinating to read. I was sorry to come to the end of the book and wished that it had been longer. As I was born in 1940, the 1950's time frame of these books was relevant to me although I grew up in Australia, not London. We did have our fair share of midwifery problems I suppose, but few would have compared with the wives and mothers of the East End just after the war. Living sometimes in the most abject poverty in unhealthy and unsanitary conditions these women excelled. Being in the time when the man of the family never got involved with 'women's issues' these women, sometimes with ten or more children living in just two or three rooms with no inside plumbing or cooking facilities would help each other. In time of crisis neighbour would help neighbour, mother would help daughter. I recommend this book, especially if you can relate to the era, as it brings home just how folk lived in the East End of London. The close-knit community spirit was destroyed once the area was demolished and the inhabitants re-housed in other areas further away.
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I finished the last book in the series like I was farewelling old friends. The character development is a work of genius and I loved each one of them I was reduced to tears and uplifted and inspired at other times. Loved these books.Not only was I enthralled by Jenny's stpory but she taught me much historical background and laws that I was unaware of. Inspirational work.
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I saw the whole series on TV, and now want to read the books.
I am a nurse and worked in the ER at Cook County Hospital
in Chicago and Infant Welfare in a housing project.in
Chicago during the 1950's. i could really relate to the story.
It is a heart warming story of caring and dedication to work
in places of need and difficulty. Yet, very rewarding to get to
know about the heart and souls of all people.
I am a nurse and worked in the ER at Cook County Hospital
in Chicago and Infant Welfare in a housing project.in
Chicago during the 1950's. i could really relate to the story.
It is a heart warming story of caring and dedication to work
in places of need and difficulty. Yet, very rewarding to get to
know about the heart and souls of all people.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I was looking forward to Jennifer Worth's final work on her time as a nurse midwife in London in the 1950's. I was not disappointed. Her stories of the effects of TB, illegal abortion, and the difficulties of daily life for women proves again that truth is stranger than fiction. The entire series is an important record and reflection on a time hopefully in the past. I know these books made me grateful that , as a woman, I live in the 21st century.
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Nina M. Osier
on March 24, 2013
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London's East End as midwife Jennifer Lee knew it no longer exists, thanks to social engineering and urban renewal policies that condemned the tenements and relocated the families who had called the East End home for generations. The Sisters of St. Raymond Nonnatus, an Anglican convent dedicated to nursing and midwifery, found themselves no longer needed as the population they had served for so long went elsewhere - however unwillingly - and then "the pill" made it possible for women to control their fertility, at last. The birth rate dropped dramatically, and the sisters withdrew to their mother house and found new ways to serve. But during the last years of the East End, Nonnatus House was still there; and so were its young midwives, nurses who came there to be trained and who sometimes stayed to fulfill a religious vocation. While others, young women like Jenny Lee, moved on to other stages of their lives and careers - and some, like Chummy (familiar to readers of the trilogy's first two books, as well as to viewers of the PBS series), moved on to fulfill their religious callings elsewhere.
This third and final installment in Jennifer Lee Worth's memoirs is darker than the first two, as a way of life moves toward its close. It's also more factual, with a chapter telling a family's story (usually a tragic one) followed by a chapter-length essay about the medical/social problem involved. I found this less engaging and enjoyable than the author's storytelling in the first two books, but it is effective in its own way; and it does seem to be well researched. Toward the book's end, Chummy takes center stage with her delightful romance and fulfillment of a destiny quite different from what her aristocratic family intended.Read more ›
This third and final installment in Jennifer Lee Worth's memoirs is darker than the first two, as a way of life moves toward its close. It's also more factual, with a chapter telling a family's story (usually a tragic one) followed by a chapter-length essay about the medical/social problem involved. I found this less engaging and enjoyable than the author's storytelling in the first two books, but it is effective in its own way; and it does seem to be well researched. Toward the book's end, Chummy takes center stage with her delightful romance and fulfillment of a destiny quite different from what her aristocratic family intended.Read more ›
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The final book in the series. I first discovered it on Netflix as a U.K. tv series. These stories of the adventures of trained midwives, who live with nuns and travel by bicycle in 1950's London, were taken from the diary of one midwife. Their youth and inexperience with life contrasts with the gritty experience of life in the poorest of neighborhoods. The human stories are alternately humorous, uplifting, and as unspeakably sad as is existence at the bottom of British society. It is also a fascinating look into the lives of London's poorest before and after WWII as it goes into the individual histories of some of her inhabitants.
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