Based on Jennifer Worth's bestselling memoirs, Call the Midwife is the true story behind the beloved PBS series. 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.
My Take: I enjoy the TV series so I wanted to read the book. The book was interesting but I think I enjoy the midwife characters in the BBC series more than those described in the book. They are more colorful and upbeat. Likewise, I preferred the TV version of the patients more because they were less gruesome. I'm sure the book depicts a more realistic portrait of her time spent in this profession but sometimes I'm not seeking reality. I didn't initially realize that it is the first book in a trilogy and I have only read the first one, but I would recommend it to anyone who likes the show. I didn't like it well enough to seek out book 2 and 3 though.
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