Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

ISBN-13:	9780143123255
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/29/2012
Series:	The Midwife Trilogy , #1
Edition description:	Media Tie-in
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	31,034
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women—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 of the city's seedier side.An unfortgettable story of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the strength of remarkable and inspiring women, Call the Midwife is the true story behind the beloved PBS series, which will soon return for its sixth season.