The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jennifer WorthSeries:Midwife Trilogy #1Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-04-07Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143116233ISBN-10:143116231UPC:9780143116233Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Medical, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:Medical (Incl. Patients), Allied Health Services, Pregnancy & ChildbirthSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCBX0RP0QW
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
An unforgettable true story, The Midwife is the basis for the hit PBS drama Call the Midwife At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London-from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143116233ISBN-10:143116231UPC:9780143116233Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Medical, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:Medical (Incl. Patients), Allied Health Services, Pregnancy & ChildbirthSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCBX0RP0QW
Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. She then moved to London to train as a midwife. She later became a staff nurse at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, and then ward sister and sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Euston. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 Jennifer left nursing in order to study music intensively, gaining...
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