These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun’s room. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the fascinating people she encountered. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, visits the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. She worked with an order of nursing nuns, learning how to cope with midwifery in slum. Peggy and Frank’s parents both died within 6 months of each other and the children were left destitute. In the 1950s, Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. There’s Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House – she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. The sequel to Jennifer Worths New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife. In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered.
A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV series.
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