Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard TimesThe 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 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. |
Contents
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Nonnatus House | 21 |
Chummy | 41 |
The Bicycle | 58 |
Rickets | 74 |
Fred | 90 |
A Breech Delivery | 104 |
Len Concita Warren | 127 |
The Workhouse | 230 |
The Bottom Dropped Out of Pigs | 237 |
Of Mixed Descent I | 245 |
Of Mixed Descent II | 256 |
Of Mixed Descent III | 262 |
The Luncheon Party | 270 |
Smog | 281 |
The Flying Squad | 291 |
Sister Monica Joan | 144 |
Mary | 160 |
Café Life | 180 |
Sister Evangelina | 201 |
Mrs Jenkins | 211 |
Rosie | 221 |
Old Old Age | 306 |
In the Beginning | 314 |
On the Difficulties | 320 |
Glossary of medical terms | 334 |
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