Call the Midwife: Ruf des Lebens

Call the Midwife: Ruf des Lebens

2002 • 399 pages

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The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side. An unfortgettable story of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the strength of remarkable and inspiring women, Call the Midwife is the true story behind the beloved PBS series, which will soon return for its sixth season.

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#1 in The Midwife Trilogy

The Midwife Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by Jennifer Worth.

Call the Midwife: Ruf des Lebens
Shadows of the Workhouse
Farewell to the East End

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