64 Followers
71 Following
KatieMc

KatieMc

My corner in BookLikes

Currently reading

Risk Return (Return on Investment Book 2)
Aleksandr Voinov
License
Paul Markun
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Little Book of Mindfulness: 10 minutes a day to less stress, more peace
Patrizia Collard

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

Call the Midwife : A True Story of the East End in the 1950s - JENNIFER WORTH A midwife's authentic and slightly ethnocentric account of mid-20th century London slums. While the author is a competent writer, it's not literary, and to me that adds to the charm. She was a bit patronizing of her patients at times, but she did seem to genuinely care for them. I really liked learning about this piece of post-war London as it is rarely depicted in books and movies. Certainly a great book for anyone interested in women's heath in a pre-oral contraceptive era.

There are two more books in this memoir (a memoir trilogy?) and a netflix series to boot. Potential of midwifery ahead. Maybe.