Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
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Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End

About this book

The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife

When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth's memoir trilogy, which the Times Literary Supplement described as "powerful stories with sweet charm and controlled outrage" in the face of dire circumstances.

Here, at last, is the full story of Chummy's delightful courtship and wedding. We also meet Megan'mave, identical twins who share a browbeaten husband, and return to Sister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form. As in Worth's first two books, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times and Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse, the vividly portrayed denizens of a postwar East End contend with the trials of extreme poverty—unsanitary conditions, hunger, and disease—and find surprising ways to thrive in their tightly knit community.

A rich portrait of a bygone era of comradeship and midwifery populated by unforgettable characters, Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End will appeal to readers of Frank McCourt, Katherine Boo, and James Herriot, as well as to the fans of the acclaimed PBS show based on the trilogy.

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Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. ‘Youth’s a Stuff Will Not Endure’
  6. Three Men Went into a Restaurant . . .
  7. Trust a Sailor
  8. Cynthia
  9. Lost Babies
  10. Soot
  11. Nancy
  12. Megan’mave
  13. Meg the Gipsy
  14. Mave the Mother
  15. Madonna of the Pavement
  16. The Fight
  17. The Master’s Arms
  18. Tuberculosis
  19. The Master
  20. The Mistress
  21. The Angels
  22. Too Many Children
  23. The Abortionist
  24. Back-Street Abortions
  25. Stranger than Fiction
  26. The Captain’s Daughter
  27. On the Shelf
  28. The Wedding
  29. Taxi!
  30. Adieu
  31. Farewell to the East End
  32. Glossary of obstetric terms
  33. Bibliography
  34. About the Author
  35. Praise for Jennifer Worth
  36. Also by Jennifer Worth
  37. Credits
  38. Copyright
  39. About the Publisher