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Jennifer Worth - Call The Midwife, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Call The Midwife

A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

Av Jennifer Worth

142 kr

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Beskrivning
'Unforgettable' GUARDIAN'Poignant, funny and enlightening' DAILY EXPRESS'Gripping, moving and convincing from beginning to end . . . a powerful evocation of a long-gone world' LITERARY REVIEWTHE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE AWARD-WINNING BBC TV SERIESIn this extraordinary account of life as midwife in 1950s London, Jennifer Worth recounts her experiences - and those of the women she helped - in all their stark, colourful and at times shocking reality. Life in London's East End in the 1950s was tough. The brothels of Cable Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bomb sites - this was the world that Jennifer Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of twenty-two. Babies were born in slum conditions, often with no running water.In Call the Midwife, Worth describes the romance and beauty of London as well as the bug-infested tenements, the spectre of disease, the sense of community and the incredible resilience of women who often bore more than ten children. Funny and moving, it brings to life a world that has now changed beyond measure.'Superbly moving but also witty' CLOSER'The characters . . . stay with you for a long time' WOMAN MAGAZINE
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-01-05
  • Mått: 130 x 200 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 268 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 368
  • Förlag: Orion Publishing Co
  • ISBN: 9780753823835
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Galaxy British Book Awards: Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award 2009
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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 twenty-five 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.

Recensioner i media

Worth's books are full of fascinating social history: about living conditions in east London, the scale of poverty and violence, the realities of postwar medicine and the workhouse

Betyg & recensioner

10 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.4/5

  1. 5/5 Eva

    En sträck läsning. Välskriven och intressant samtidigt vet man att allt är sant. Läs den.
    En berättelse om hur barnmorskans arbete blev till proffesion. Om de fattiga i East End och om de mirakel dessa kvinnor gick igenom.

  2. 5/5 Mela

    En otroligt bra bok! Skriven på ett personligt sätt så att det känns som att det är du som upplever händelserna i boken!

  3. 3/5 Pinar C
  4. 4/5 Sokhiba R
  5. 5/5 Carina F

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