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Pen & Sword
Pub. Date
2013
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Billie Hunter and Nicky Leap spent several years interviewing dozens of mothers and retired midwives about their experiences of childbirth before the NHS. The result was 'The Midwife's Tale', an oral history of midwifery from the 1910s to the 1950s. The authors explore the very real poverty of the time; how woman coped with rearing large families; and the lack of knowledge of contraception and abortion.
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Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2012
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Maria Anderson trained as an NHS nurse and went on to become a midwife, a job she has adored for over 20 years. After fainting whilst attending her first three births, Maria went from nervous trainee to assured midwife and in her brilliant memoir she recounts the highs and lows of life inside the maternity unit.
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Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
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Spring is just around the corner in Llandyfan, and the first crocuses are beginning to bloom. Then the beautiful morning is shattered by the discovery of a corpse in the glebe - the victim of a grisly murder. Who could have wanted poor Fred Woolton, the mild-mannered milkman, dead? Midwife Maudie once again turns sleuth! Despite expecting a baby of her own, she is not about to take it easy while a case needs to be solved...
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Oneworld
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Monique Dembele saves lives and dispenses hope in a place where child-birth is a life-and-death matter. Her passion to improve the lot of the women & children in her West African village is matched by her humour in the face of an unhappy marriage & hard work. This is the story of a rare friendship between a young volunteer & a midwife.
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Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
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When midwife Maudie Rouse marries the love of her life, policeman Dick Bryant, the pair could not be happier as they settle into contented domesticity in the village of Llandyfan. But troubles abound for the newlyweds - an abandoned baby, a difficult new district nurse, and the possibility of losing their home - and Maudie must find a way to deal with the problems, in addition to bicycling around the village performing her professional duties. Meanwhile,...
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Publisher
Hutchinson
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
No sleep for 20 hours. No food for 10. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers. Welcome to the life of a midwife. Leah Hazard's work in the maternity wards of the NHS frontline is more extreme than you could ever imagine. From the bloody to the beautiful, from moments of utter vulnerability to remarkable displays of strength, from camaraderie to raw desperation, from heart-wrenching grief to the pure, perfect joy of a new-born baby, Leah has seen it...
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HarperElement
Pub. Date
2012
Description
From the moment Linda delivered her first baby, racing across rain-splattered Manchester streets on her trusty moped in the dead of night, she knew she'd found her vocation. This book presents her experiences as Britain's longest serving midwife.
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Isis
Pub. Date
2015
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When the CALL THE MIDWIFE books became bestsellers, Jennifer Worth was inundated with correspondence. Letters TO THE MIDWIFE is a collection of the correspondence she received, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world. Along with readers' responses and personal histories, it is filled with heartwarming gems such as letters sent by one of the nuns featured in CALL THE MIDWIFE and a curious list of the things Jennifer would need to become...
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Summer 1936. With the mill towns of Yorkshire still in the grip of the Great Depression, newly trained midwife Hazel Price returns to the streets of her childhood only to find that her modern methods and supposedly 'stuck-up' ways bring her into conflict with her mother, other family members and residents of Raglan Road. Determined Hazel battles on. She knows that all eyes are on her as she assists in home deliveries and supports the local GP. The...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
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Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world. At twenty-six years old, not yet a fully-trained midwife, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS, she soon learned that even at home the right...
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John Blake Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
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Before, during and after labour the role of a midwife is second to none. The Secret Midwife reveals the highs and lows on the frontline of the maternity unit, from the mother who tries to give herself a DIY caesarean to the baby born into witness protection, and from surprise infants that arrive down toilets to ones that turn up in the lift. But there is a problem; the system which is supposed to support the midwives and the women they care for is...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2009
Description
This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tuberculosis and the strange life of a ship's woman.
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Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding back. She found herself once again immersed in the world of the 1950s East End of London. The voices of much loved, familiar characters spoke loud and clear, particularly that of Fred the boiler man,...
16) Call the midwife
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Publisher
ISIS
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Jennifer Worth was just 22 years old when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. These anecdotes encompass the whole spectrum of human emotions - they candidly reveal the shocking truth of childbirth conditions just 50 years ago.
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Soundings Audio Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding back. She found herself once again immersed in the world of the 1950s East End of London. The voices of much loved, familiar characters spoke loud and clear, particularly that of Fred the boiler man,...
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Midwife volume 2
Description
1579: Hannah Levi, a Venetian exile, has set up a new life for herself as the best midwife in all of Constantinople, tending to the thousand women of the Sultan's lively and infamous harem. One night, when Hannah is unexpectedly summoned to the palace, she's confronted with Leah, a poor Jewish peasant girl who has been abducted and sold into the harem. The Sultan wants her to produce his heir, but the girl just wants to return to her home and the...