Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth (Paperback) by Worth Jennifer

Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth (Paperback) by Worth Jennifer

Leaving a middle-class childhood to become a midwife in London s poor East End, Jennifer Worth not only delivered babies, she touched numerous lives and recounted with depth the heartrending story of a neighborhood in transition. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth s memoir trilogy, which the Times Literary Supplement described as powerful stories with sweet charm and controlled outrage in the face of dire circumstances.
Here, at last, is the full story of Chummy s delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan mave, identical twins who share a browbeaten husband, and return to Sister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form. As in Worth s first two books, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times and Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse, the vividly portrayed denizens of a postwar East End contend with the trials of extreme poverty unsanitary conditions, hunger, and disease and find surprising ways to thrive in their tightly knit community.

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 the Licentiate of the London College of Music in 1974 and a Fellowship ten years later. Jennifer married Philip Worth in 1963 and they lived together in Hertfordshire. She died in May 2011, leaving her husband, two daughters and three grandchildren. Her memoirs are the basis for the popular TV series Call the Midwife.

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ISBN 13	9781407228068
ISBN 10	1407228064
Title	Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth (Paperback)
Author	Worth Jennifer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2009-01-01
Number of pages	0
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