Publisher's Synopsis
No woman could read this book without feeling the pain - and the joy. No man could read it without being truly moved. Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in the heart of London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying. Jennifer worked with an order of nuns who were nurses and midwives, and who had been working in slum conditions since the 1870s. She dealt with her patients with amazing kindness and understanding - and a great deal of Cockney humour. Jennifer also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than fiction.
