Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

The book 'Call the Midwife' is the memoirs of Jennifer Worth about her life and work in London in the 1950s. A young girl, Jenny Lee, becomes a midwife at the St. Raymond Nonnatus Community in the East End. The... dirty streets marked by the recent war, noisy docks, overcrowded tenements, crime, and extreme poverty—the area could hardly be called prosperous in the mid-20th century. The nurses and nuns of the community were then the only ones tirelessly caring for women from poor working families. Working as a midwife, the author witnessed the difficult lives of these people day after day, became a witness to their tragedies and joys, and was convinced of the incredible strength of their characters.

At the end of her life, Jennifer Worth wrote an astonishing book about that time, about the nuns and ordinary East Enders, the first literary account of the selfless work of midwives.