Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

11 reviews

sapphirerose's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Rape, Abortion, Death, Homophobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Violence, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Terminal illness, and Vomit

kloughlin's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual content, Infidelity, Medical content, and Trafficking

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Child abuse, and Rape

its_van_vulpen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Classism, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Grief, Medical content, Blood, Abandonment, and Abortion

lolatarantula's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Infidelity, Rape, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Grief, Cursing, Excrement, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Abortion, Alcoholism, Classism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Addiction

blewballoon's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I bought this book a couple years ago after I finished watching the latest season of Call the Midwife at the time. It's one of my favorite shows and I wish I had read the books sooner, it's a lot more of a faithful adaptation than I expected. It was nice to revisit the stories I remember from the early seasons but get a more in-depth midwife perspective on them, along with more information about how the characters from the show were presented in the memoir. Honestly, I feel like the show should get a reward for how good of a book adaptation it is. My biggest criticism is that the opinions of the author herself can be a little outdated and touch on racist/sexist or generally problematic. The book also feels incomplete, some things are set up or hinted at and then don't reach a conclusion as if they were setup for sequels, which I didn't expect in a memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Violence, Racism, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, and War

Minor: Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and War

jenny_d's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Trafficking, Miscarriage, and Infidelity

tamaraepps's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, and Ableism

Minor: Abortion

yourmajestyalice's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Really enjoyed this. I know the storylines already from the tv show but something about seeing them written down and knowing the real women behind them made it a lot more real and emotional

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Infidelity

olivexgreen's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

I’ll admit, I started reading this because I love the BBC series. I think this book does a lot to show what life in Poplar must have been like for the people living there, the medical and financial realities of Jennifer Worth’s patients. 

However, Worth writes from a place of privilege and judgement. Judgements about the nuns, her fellow midwives, her patients are made callously. I would be less put off by them if it weren’t for the fact that she says these things as she writes and not as she’s looking back. 

She makes judgmental comments about her patients’ social status, their dialect, their racial/ethnic backgrounds, their homes, their bodies. She refers to wealthy London as the only civilized place in the world (a comment which is made about 2009).

If you’re looking for the compassion and kindness of the series, skip the memoirs. If you’re looking for information, give it a try.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Medical content

Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, Sexism, Classism, Infidelity, and Trafficking

aliceperspeculum's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Child death, Blood, Violence, Sexual violence, Racism, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, and Abortion