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amysreading_nook 's review for:
Shadows of the Workhouse
by Jennifer Worth
I really enjoyed Call the Midwife; both the TV series and the first book so I really wanted to read the rest of the series, hoping it would be more of the same.
I have to be honest, I was quite disappointed with this book. I was hoping we’d get more tales of Jenny herself and her experiences being a midwife and a nurse. Instead the majority of the book was actually about other people’s stories - which Jenny wasn’t present for in any sense. It just confused me as they almost didn’t feel real? It read more like a work of fiction because of how detailed it was, and it was clear Jenny wouldn’t have known every exact detail...
The stories were definitely interesting and horrifying, but there was a distinct lack of Jenny’s voice and no midwifery skills whatsoever in this book! I just wish we’d actually got more of her from this book.
I will read the next one as I bought them both and hopefully it’s the same time as Call the Midwife was!
I have to be honest, I was quite disappointed with this book. I was hoping we’d get more tales of Jenny herself and her experiences being a midwife and a nurse. Instead the majority of the book was actually about other people’s stories - which Jenny wasn’t present for in any sense. It just confused me as they almost didn’t feel real? It read more like a work of fiction because of how detailed it was, and it was clear Jenny wouldn’t have known every exact detail...
The stories were definitely interesting and horrifying, but there was a distinct lack of Jenny’s voice and no midwifery skills whatsoever in this book! I just wish we’d actually got more of her from this book.
I will read the next one as I bought them both and hopefully it’s the same time as Call the Midwife was!