Call The Midwife

A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.

These are great stories about the lost world of London's East End before the slum clearances, when community was all important and no one ever locked their doors. Does for midwifery what James Herriot did for veterinary medicine. Stories about people struggling in the face of tremendous poverty and deprivation - as such will appeal to the large audience for 'misery' memoirs and stories of triumph over tragedy. Jennifer is a natural born storyteller and is full of opinions about the loss of our communities. Matthew Parris picked up Jennifer's stories in the Spectator 'Worth's book made me cry in a railway carriage' 'Worth is indeed a natural storyteller and her detailed account of being a midwife in London's East End is gripping, moving and convincing from beginning to end...There are moments in the convent's warm, often funny daily life that are reminiscent of Richard Gordon's Doctor in the House, though with more depth of characterisation...Call the Midwife is a powerful evocation of a long-gone world - and in Worth it has surely found one of its best chroniclers' Literary Review.

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