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It’s a pleasure to sit at this old lady’s knee.

Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

June 19, 2017 by Blingle Bells Leave a Comment

It’s a pleasure to sit at this old lady’s knee.

It’s been years since I read the first Call the Midwife book, and I only vaguely remember it. When this finally made its way to the top of my Goodreads list, I was a little concerned that the gap would be a problem. Fortunately, Shadows of the Workhouse more or less functions as a standalone book. Knowing the basic workings of Nonnatus House is useful, but hardly required. Whereas Call the Midwife was a pretty straightforward memoir of Jennifer Worth’s time as a midwife working among nuns dedicated to providing obstetric care to poor women in postwar London, Shadows of […]

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Lovely Jenny Lee.

Call the Midwife (The Midwife Trilogy, #1) by Jennifer Worth

May 28, 2015 by narfna Leave a Comment

Lovely Jenny Lee.

I came to Call the Midwife, the first book in Jennifer Worth’s series of nursing memoirs set in post-WWII East End of London, in an ass-backwards way. I had seen the entire series as it aired on PBS, and then again as it was released on DVD, before I happened upon a copy of this first volume in a used bookstore. The show is remarkably faithful to the books, so all of the stories that are featured here I already knew. And I was still riveted by them. Jennifer Worth, formerly nurse/midwife Jenny Lee, is an extremely engaging narrator. She looks back on […]

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5/28/2015 narfna's CBR7 Review No:81 |
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