Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

ISBN-13: 9780753827871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str.

Jennifer Worth

Opis

Jennifer Worth was just 22 years old when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. These stories encompass the whole spectrum of human emotions, and candidly reveal the shocking truth of childbirth conditions just 50 years ago.

Recenzje

Re-released to tie in with a new BBC adaptation, you must read this superbly moving but also witty story. CLOSER 20120114

O autorze

Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, 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 25 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.