The Midwife

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 all over London — from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who cannot speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side — illuminate a fascinating time in history.

Beautifully written and utterly moving, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is a mother and everyone who has a mother.