Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

11 reviews

barium_squirrel's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Classism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Violence, Excrement, Drug abuse, Blood, Misogyny, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexism, Medical trauma, Dementia, Addiction, Confinement, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

considerthelily's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Trafficking

Moderate: Sexual content

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

maddiet425's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.5

I wouldn’t have liked this book had I not seen the show. The writing style wasn’t for me, and I didn’t love the pacing of the story. The book kept me interesting though and I did really enjoy reading about the characters and stories from the show, so I will probably read the rest of the series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Miscarriage 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

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

cgreenstein's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

I had no idea that the TV show was so true to life. I figured the writers probably made things way more dramatic than they really were, but it seems that, if anything, the show is probably playing things down, not up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Child death, Abortion, and Medical trauma

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book was full of sensitive reflections and life lessons that Jenny Worth learned when she was a midwife in England in the 1950s, 1960s, & 1970s. It was heartfelt and moving. And yes, much like the show, I did cry a few times!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

katjoybooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Violence, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing and Dementia

There is a VERY graphic scene of a strip show and prostitution. So much so I had to put the book down for a couple days before continuing.