The Complete Call the Midwife Stories Jennifer Worth 4 Books Collection Collector's Gift-Edition (Shadows of the Workhouse, Farewell to the East End, Call the Midwife, Letters to the Midwife)

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If a refund or reimbursement is payable to you, we will transfer the money using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase. She masterfully simplifies their history and intentions so every reader, no matter their background, is able to understand them and form their own opinion. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Worth wrote the first volume of her memoirs by hand and sent them to Coates to read, and Coates later served as advisor on the books and the TV adaptation.

The book also enables readers to follow Jennifer's personal story, as she discovers the amazing resilience of a population still bearing the scars of war, and the vibrant community of nuns with whom she lives and who teach her the skills of midwifery. Absolutely jaw-dropping tales of the 50s in London, the men, the women prior to any kind of birth control, the lack of sanitary conditions, clean and accessible water and toilets, and the unfortunate back alley remedy of unwanted pregnancy. All in all, this book revisits and exemplifies the lives of London’s East End in the face of adversity, and the poor working and living conditions which midwives experienced in London’s East End but the aid workers soldiered on for the betterment of the society.She wrote her first book in 2002 as a candid but compassionate telling of the stories from that community she felt had been ignored whilst she was working as a nurse and midwife in the poverty-stricken Poplar in the East End of London. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

I knew of Poplar as a station on the adorable Dockland Light Railway, which I took into work at Bank (the station for Bank of England) and knew that if I boarded the wrong train at Poplar, I could end up in parts of the Docklands in which I did not care to be. This final book in Jennifer Worth's trilogy shares her last memories from her time as a midwife in London's East End and brings her story full circle. So deep is the respect, even reverence, of the roughest, toughest docker for the district midwives that we can go anywhere alone, day or night, without fear” (p. Record number of delegates head to biggest ever BBC Worldwide Showcase in Liverpool to celebrate a significant anniversary".No matter how we live with each other, we still live together, thrive, love, celebrate, and experience every dichotomous condition together. The third series, set in 1959, depicts cystic fibrosis, polio, caring for the terminally ill and midwifery in a prison context. Other cancelled products: If you want to cancel products that are not damaged or incorrectly supplied, then you must inform us of this within seven working days following the date of receipt in accordance with the Distance Selling Regulations or otherwise as soon as possible. The Pill was yet to be introduced, and the average nuclear family was several times larger than it is today. But really people do the best they can under the circumstances, and that’s all that is to these, too.

Sister Julienne and fellow midwife Cynthia, close friends of Worth, retained their names in the TV series whilst other characters, though based on real people, had their names changed, such as the enormously popular Chummy played by Miranda Hart. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. The second series, set in 1958, shows the introduction of gas and air as a form of pain relief, unexploded ordnance, an outbreak of tuberculosis, a baby born with spina bifida and ends with the condemning of the Nonnatus House building.

She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction.

According to the World Health Organisation, nurses and midwives account for nearly 50 per cent of the global health force so if you know someone who practices as a midwife or if you yourself were supported during childbirth, make sure to share a heartfelt thank you for all the work they do. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tuberculosis and a ship's woman who 'serviced' the entire crew, as well as plenty of humour and warmth, such as the tale of two women who shared the same husband! I understand from her that it also features lots of background information about the real-life character and stories from which the TV series is adapted. She related in a most straightforward manner the plight of women who had no option but to commit suicide in the Cuts, often taking their children along; how families who couldn’t feed one more baby and suffocated them; and the surgical rape of scores of working-class women, owing to the Contagious Diseases Act of 1864.Bibliophiles who enjoyed The Midwife Trilogy penned by Jennifer Worth also greatly enjoyed the following suchlike books.