AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF MOTHERHOOD. THE BRAVERY OF A COMMUNITY, AND THE STRENGTH OF REMARKABLE AND INSPIRING WOMEN At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies-from the plucky, warmhearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children, to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side-illuminate a fascinating time in history. Beautifully written and utterly moving, Call the Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother. "Jennifer Worth's memories of her years as a midwife were at once hilarious and tremendously moving." AYELET WALDMAN, AUTHOR OF LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS "Worth is indeed a natural storyteller.... Her detailed account of being a midwife in London's East End is gripping, moving, and convincing from beginning to end." —LITERARY REVIEW "I loved the people, the nuns, the tough dockers, the prostitutes and pimps, seen with the fresh eyes of youth." —THE GUARDIAN (LONDON) "Readers will fall in love with Call the Midwife... an affirmation of life during the best and worst of times. " -ELIZABETH BRUNDAGE, AUTHOR OF THE DOCTOR'S WIFE