Remarkable stories, as are some of the recreations of the accounts of several of the more difficult deliveries, especially as Jenny is being indoctrinated into the system of the House, the nuns, and the other midwives.

So full and complete was her life that a befitting goodbye was to imagine her riding to heaven in a taxi surrounded by a cortege of the most magnificent clouds. District midwife Jennifer Worth takes us into her last days at the house and some fascinating stories are told through reading. If one has had the privilege of having grown up in this indomitable country, one knows the unconquerable attitude of which I speak. I will never forget the stories about those poor people and what a terrible life of drudgery they had to endure.

We get to meet many a significant people from history, such as Florence Nightingale, and chuckle silently when the impertinent Sister Monica Joan wrote to her about being imprisoned in her home. Working side–by–side among the sisters, Worth soon learns that they, too, possess compelling histories. The tenth series, set in 1966, compares the practice at Nonnatus House with the private Lady Emily Clinic in Mayfair, PKU, diabetes and the controversy of abortion on the eve of legalisation. Worth's powers of description, authenticity of detail and richness of characterisation evoke from the start an unforgettable milieu – Poplar and the London docklands of the mid to late 1950s – to which I and clearly many thousands of other readers willingly and completely surrendered.

By the time of Jennifer Worth’s death in June 2011, her books had already sold almost a million copies. She argued that the method shown in the movie, far from being fairly quick and painless, was in fact almost invariably fatal to the mother. Often in social situations, she would take a back seat and just absorb what was going on around her. However, her books, especially those which were reissued, became instant hits and shifted over a million copies in her home country alone. This runs as a theme in our lives in the UK, whether it’s the elderly insisting on remaining cheerfully independent right up to when the Angel of Death comes knocking or, in the books, how Guardsman Collette one by one gave his entire family, including his wife, up to the war; Miss Masterton’s determination to further her family’s publican legacy despite losing her entire family and child to tuberculosis; Cynthia’s lifelong struggle with depression; Novice Ruth’s devastating fight to keep faith; and the efforts of the Nursing Sisters of St.

Jennifer Worth’s first book in The Midwife Trilogy, The Midwife, has since been adapted for the screen. The starring actor is English actress Jessica Raine wherein she appears as Jennifer Lee, notably in the first three series. Absolutely jaw-dropping tales of the 50s in London, the men, the women prior to any kind of birth control, the lack of sanitary conditions, clean and accessible water and toilets, and the unfortunate back alley remedy of unwanted pregnancy.

She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. The fact that children of poor families had to begin to work at as young as eight years old may seem like extreme misfortune today, but in those times, where bills were many and the plight of the poor extreme, this one act kept families together and kept their head above water. It tells of the experiences of a young trainee midwife in the East End of London in the 1950’s and is a graphic portrayal of the quite appalling conditions that the East Enders endured. She forms vivid imagery in the minds of the readers, and one walks with her, feeling her dilemmas every step of the way.Our Non-Fiction Range includes: Academic, Photography, Audio books, Business, Cook Books, Craft Books, Health and Fitness Books, Mind, Body, Spirit (Tarot).