CALL THE MIDWIFE

Couldn't stop reading

Gives u a insight about a womens life in earlier times....

A story of the stuggles in thoses times of the 50s when there was a lot of tragedies in the slums of East End. Lot of humor and kindness of strangers gives the story a warmhearted tale to read.

Real life midwife Story in the London of the 1950ies

O livro é excelente. Revela uma faceta, em geral desconhecida, do trabalho insano das parteiras nas zonas mais pobres de Londres depois da Segunda Guerra. Mostra sua luta contra a pobreza, a ignorância e a sujeira dos moradores de prédios bombardeados e quase em ruínas, invadidos pela população miserável que neles se abrigou pela absoluta falta de moradia naquele difícil período da História do país.

Es una alegría leer parte de la historia de la Salud Pública en la Inglaterra del medio siglo XX, a través de las vivencias cotidianas de unas enfermeras, unas religiosas, un médico y el trabajador del convento, todos con un gran compromiso con sus pacientes y toda la comunidad; con amplio criterio, comprensivos e incluyentes. Me encanta que sean unas memorias de hechos reales, muy bien escritas y que intercalan los problemas y triunfos personales de cada protagonista. Es de mis libros y series de TV favoritas

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I am in love with this book. Fun to read, humorous, fascinating, full of history of London, medicine and nursing.I have worked in maternity in hospitals in the past and now I work as a home care nurse, the equivalent of district nurses, we dont do home births but visit homes for wound care and palliative care some of which are in very similar conditions nurse Lee describes. I watched the TV series and really enjoyed it but the book brought to life the situations and the characters and filled in the story much better than the show did. I think the casting of the show was perfect though. You dont have to be a nurse to enjoy this book.