Call the Midwife - Jennifer Worth

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Title: Call the Midwife
Author: Jennifer Worth
Genre: Non-fiction
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 340 pages
Date read: November, 2017

At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London-from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side-illuminate a fascinating time in history.


Not a bad book, but for some reason it took me more than 6 months to get through it! Not because it was boring, but because it was just much too easy to put down, so unless I prioritized it as my "active" book months could (and did) go by between each time I picked it up.

The story is very anecdotal in nature which was part of its appeal. I loved reading about the different characters Jennifer met along the way, and the start especially made me want to reread the Sue Barton series by Helen Dore Boylston. But of course the anecdotal structure of the book also meant that it was easier to put down, and that not all anecdotes were of equal interest.

All in all I liked it, and am glad to have read it, but I have absolutely no desire to neither pick up later books in the series nor check out the TV series.