Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century …
by Worth, Jennifer, Coates, Terri
fromCall the midwife
The final installment in the three-volume work that chronicles the author's life as a midwife in London's East End offers portraits of how the city's poorest citizens were able to thrive in their tightly knit community.