Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 2 mins)
By Jennifer Worth
Narrated By Nicola Barber
Overall
(128)
Performance
(110)
Story
(113)
At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
Kathy Claus says:
"This is one I didn't want to put down!"
Which character – as performed by Nicola Barber – was your favorite?
I enjoyed Chummy. She is like "a goose in a new world"! The environment of Poplar and other neighborhoods is unlike any place she has been, and she adapts very easily and is loved by all.
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