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Sisters of the East End: A 1950s Nurse and Midwife, the real stories of Call the Midwife

โœ Scribed by Batten, Helen

Book ID
109863299
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Tongue
English
Weight
585 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781448175642

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โœฆ Synopsis

Heart-warming tales of nursing and midwifery from the Sisters who worked with Jennifer Worth.

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'A second's silence and then an almighty scream. It was the most moving thing I had ever seen ... A baby, a real live baby, another human life had entered the world. It didn't seem possible and yet I had witnessed it with my very own eyes.'_

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_ Born into a happy working-class North London family in the mid-twentieth century, Katie is determined to 'do something' with her life. Working in the impoverished East End in the 1950s, she meets the Sisters of St John the Divine - a community of nuns dedicated to nursing and midwifery. The Sisters have been present at births, cared for the sick and laid out the dead of the East Enders for a hundred years, and Katie soon joins them to start her journey to becoming Sister Catherine Mary.

As a nurse and midwife,...

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