Call the midwife: : farewell to the East End

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Label

Call the midwife: : farewell to the East End

Title remainder

farewell to the East End

Statement of responsibility

Jennifer Worth ; clinical editor, Terri Coates

Title variation

farewell to the East End

Creator

• Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011
• trueWorth, Jennifer, 1935-2011

Contributor

• Coates, Terri

Subject

• Childbirth -- England | London -- History -- 20th century
• East End (London, England) -- 20th century. -- Biography
• East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• trueEast End, London, England
• trueFemale friendship
• trueHome birth
• trueIndependence in women
• trueLife stories -- Science, technology, and medicine | Healthcare professionals
• trueLondon, England
• Low-income mothers -- Services for -- England -- 20th century
• trueMen/women relations
• trueMidwifery
• trueMidwives
• Midwives -- England | London -- Biography
• Poor -- England | London -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• truePoverty
• trueScience Writing -- Medicine | Doctors and Nurses
• trueWomen -- social conditions
• Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011
• trueWorth, Jennifer, 1935-2011
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueChildbirth

Genre

• trueLife stories
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueBiography
• trueScience Writing

Language

eng

Summary

When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Here, in the final book of the Call the Midwife trilogy, is the full story of Chummy's delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Meg and 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, 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. A rich portrait of a bygone era of comradeship and midwifery populated by unforgettable characters, Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End will appeal to readers of Frank McCourt, Katherine Boo, and James Herriot, as well as to the fans of the acclaimed PBS show based on the books

Member of

• Call the midwife, 03
• trueCall the midwife trilogy

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

618.20092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

RG950

LC item number

.W676 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Call the midwife trilogy

Series volume

v. 3

Target audience

adult