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ISBNs | 978-5-9908083-5-5 |
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The weight | 0,574 kg |
Size | 130 × 200 mm |
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Call the Midwife is Jennifer Whorf's memoir of her life and work in 1950s London. Young girl Jenny Lee, surprised at herself, gets a job as a midwife at the community of St. Raymond Nonnat in the East End. Dirty streets with traces of a recent war, noisy docks, overcrowded tenements, crime and extreme poverty - in the middle of the 2012th century this area could not be called prosperous. The nurses and nuns of the community were then the only ones who vigilantly cared for women from poor working-class families. Working as a midwife, day after day the author observed the difficult life of these people, witnessed their tragedies and joys, and was convinced of the incredible strength of their characters. At the end of her life, Jennifer Whorf wrote an amazing book about that time, about nuns and simple East Enders, the first story in literature about the selfless work of midwives. Not surprisingly, Call the Midwife has become an undisputed best-seller, with more than a million copies sold in the UK alone to date. In 2001, the book was filmed by the BBC. With over ten million viewers, Call the Midwife has become the most successful drama series on BBC One since XNUMX.