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Aug 28, 2023severina2001 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The second of Worth’s memoirs about working in London’s East End in the 1950s focuses mostly on the people she met as a district nurse who were formerly inmates of the government workhouse scheme. This barbaric practice purported to solve…
Jul 19, 2018
The second series is almost as good as the first one. Another glimpse into life in the 50s in a very poor area of London, England. Life is to be lived where you call home and these midwives definitely do that. I plan to put season 3 on…
Apr 11, 2017
I love the Call the Midwife series on the BBC. This is the first book I've read. The workhouse stories were hard to bear, especially the treatment of Jane as a child. So much inhumanity. But Worth's journals as a nurse are always…
Apr 15, 2016
This book in the series does not deal with the 'midwife experience'; rather, Worth focuses more on the workhouse experience and the aftermath through the lives of a number of fascinating characters. She retells their stories with acute…
Mar 15, 2016
if you thought we had it bad, read about the workhouses
Dec 30, 2015ghreads rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This second book in the Call The Midwife trilogy is primarily the fascinating social history of England’s Workhouses and their life-long effects on the inmates. The workhouses existed from 1834 to the 1930s but their legacy endured long…
Dec 23, 2014mahallett rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
this book seemed sadder than the 1st one. such hard lives. i find sister monica joan so tedious both in the book and the tv show. is she popular?
Oct 30, 2014readerpat rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I really loved this book. It is much better than the TV series. I was shocked by the cruelty in the Workhouse and the deplorable conditions in the trenches in WW1
Jane60201
Aug 27, 2014Jane60201 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
It was ok but not as interesting and full of social history as the earlier book.
mvkramer
Mar 11, 2014mvkramer rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It was great to see the characters from the first volume back again, as well as meeting new characters. These stories focus less on Jennifer Worth's work as a midwife and more on the people she met as a nurse, older people whose lives, in…
Mar 01, 2014
MsMicawber appears to have things back to front. The trilogy of 3 books are the memoirs of Jennifer Worth. The DVD's (TV shows) came later and are supposedly based on the books but, like most TV series that are based on 'true fact' books,…
Jan 08, 2014kozakd rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
All three books are a joy to read and offer a descriptive and fascinating view of life from the first half of the 20th century. I especially liked reading from the feminists perspective and it is a good reminder of how times have…
cm510
Jul 07, 2013cm510 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This second book in the Midwife series described in depth a few of the people the author met in London. She writes about such poverty, and often cruelty, that she witnessed. Yet, these people were so strong! Jennifer Worth, again,…
May 29, 2013ownedbydoxies rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I love Jennifer Worth's reminiscences of her time as mid-wife and as nurse. Society has certainly changed since the time she represents (1950s Britain), however the inner wants and needs of human beings has not and these books bring…
Apr 30, 2013busstop101 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
MsMicawber, Have you read Jennifer Worth's "Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hardtimes"? That is considered the 1st in the series of 3 books of Ms. Worth's time as young nurse in London's East End. The book that you just…
Apr 25, 2013MsMicawber rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Big disappointment. Nothing at all like the show. P.S. Just to clarify: The first half of the book is a very schmaltzy account of Jane's childhood (on the show Jane is the shy lady who falls in love with the missionary) which makes it…