by Jennifer Worth · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781780225111
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«Shadows of the Workhouse» is Jennifer Worth's memoir, published by Phoenix in paperback (294 pages, in English).
Continuation of Call the Midwife, it gathers true stories of postwar London: Jane, raised in a workhouse; siblings Peggy and Frank, separated after being orphaned; Sister Julienne as matchmaker and the eccentric Sister Monica Joan, a nonagenarian accused of theft. A portrait of workhouses and human resilience.
Second installment of The Midwife Trilogy, originally published in 2005; this edition is from 2013.
For readers of historical memoirs and fans of the television series Call the Midwife.
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM was a British memoirist, nurse, and midwife. She worked in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s, where she gained much of her experience that would later shape her writing. Drawing on these experiences, she wrote a best-selling trilogy: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009). After leaving her career in nursing, Worth re-trained as a musician.
