katielinnae 's review for:

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

4.0

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This was much more about the medical side of things than I’d expected after being familiar with the BBC show, but once I got used to the sometimes graphic descriptions of the squalor of dockside London living conditions and methods employed by the nurses to tend to their patients in the early days of modern medicine when home births were the norm and there was a fear of going to hospital (the author occasionally brings these differences between that time and now to light in her narrative), I enjoyed this audiobook very much. Very little about the other nurses in the house compared to the show — this was just about Jenny and her patients, with brief interludes spent on Sister Evangelina and Sister Monica Joan, which tied in pretty seamlessly with some of the patient stories.
Note that there is a pretty gratuitous description during a section on prostitution.