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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Whilst the TV drama is a British favourite and now in its tenth series, we recommend reading the emotional and riveting true stories and memoirs that inspired the hit TV series, written by author and former nurse and midwife Jennifer Worth who's voice is narrated by Dame Vanessa Redgrave. There's a World of books to choose from such as: Children's Books, Range includes Baby Books (0-3), Books for Toddlers (3-5), Early Readers (5-7), Childrens Story books (7-11), Young Teens (11-14), Young Adults (14-16) and Childrens Educational Books. She unabashedly inhabits a space of contrasts, giving her life to a cause and force greater than herself and yet thinking nothing of hundreds spent in her taxi cab indulgence. For instance, when she was freshly out of school, then aged fifteen, she studied shorthand writing and typing; these stood her in good stead at a secretarial job which she held in a grammar school, in the run-up to studying nursing.

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.The Narrator: Nicola Barber is an Audie Award-winning narrator whose voice can be heard in television and radio commercials and popular video games such as World of Warcraft. Well, in my day it was said that it took seven years to make a good midwife, so obviously experience counts a good deal. The TV series was also expanded beyond being true-to-book from the third series where the material available came to an end and the show continues to be scripted by Heidi Thomas. This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle.

I find it heart-warming; it's so nice to watch something where people don't get shot, nothing explodes and people just go about their daily lives and deal with their problems with the help of the midwives and nuns.

The tenth series, set in 1966, compares the practice at Nonnatus House with the private Lady Emily Clinic in Mayfair, PKU, diabetes and the controversy of abortion on the eve of legalisation. None of the Parliamentary Acts or amendments intended to create houses of horrors, and yet it all transpired. Sister Monica Joan is a mischievous and slightly dotty octogenarian when Worth meets her at Nonnatus House but in her youth, the sister defied her aristocratic family to become a nun and midwife, eventually delivering thousands of babies in London through the worst bombings of the Blitz. His Bob Lee Swagger series took the world by storm in the 90s, and he ha

And I lived in West India Quay in a gorgeously luxurious apartment rising tall above the Docklands with spectacular city views and the river passing quietly by. I enjoyed the stories and anecdotes about life in the convent, the nuns, the nurses and the situations they encountered. The third series, set in 1959, depicts cystic fibrosis, polio, caring for the terminally ill and midwifery in a prison context. Another early book that Jennifer Worth published in The Midwife Trilogy is titled Shadows of the Workhouse.Jennifer Worth seems to be a lady of many depths and talents, and I'm sure her husband and family will be thrilled at how many people have been inspired by her writing, and the awareness she raised in profiling midwifery. This year, the International Confederation of Midwives have chosen to celebrate the theme of “Follow the Data: Invest in Midwives” for International Day of the Midwife 2021. She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction.

The production responded that the series was a period drama, not a documentary, and "highly accurate to the time it depicts".A total of twelve annual series, of eight episodes each, have aired subsequently year-on-year, along with an annual Christmas special broadcast every Christmas Day since 2012. In the Midst of Life, the standalone book that followed the series, ought to be included in medical studies not just for nurses but for doctors of all specialties and seniorities, too.