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Call the Midwife
by Jennifer Worth
4.5 Stars
I will admit that I am a huge fan of the BBC adaptation of Worth's books, but I completely forgot about them until the new series of the show started a couple of months ago. I also have a keen interest in the area where it is based as I work in the Isle of Dogs and I used to live there too.
Worth's stories and characters are partly real and partly fantasy. I do not mind this as I was more interested in the stories of the women living in the East End at the time. One cannot fully understand how hard life was back then and how this still impacts the area today; Tower Hamlets being the 3rd poorest borough in London.
There are women who are coerced and tricked into a life of prostitution, married women who have affairs with West Indian men, women with 25 children and women living in absolute poverty with abusive husbands.
Through all of this the midwives must remain professional and non-judgemental, though this is clearly challenging as Worth makes clear.
Overall, a very charming book with a lot of difficult and challenging accounts.
I will admit that I am a huge fan of the BBC adaptation of Worth's books, but I completely forgot about them until the new series of the show started a couple of months ago. I also have a keen interest in the area where it is based as I work in the Isle of Dogs and I used to live there too.
Worth's stories and characters are partly real and partly fantasy. I do not mind this as I was more interested in the stories of the women living in the East End at the time. One cannot fully understand how hard life was back then and how this still impacts the area today; Tower Hamlets being the 3rd poorest borough in London.
There are women who are coerced and tricked into a life of prostitution, married women who have affairs with West Indian men, women with 25 children and women living in absolute poverty with abusive husbands.
Through all of this the midwives must remain professional and non-judgemental, though this is clearly challenging as Worth makes clear.
Overall, a very charming book with a lot of difficult and challenging accounts.